FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
Gold Mustard
Oh! we were in a hurry that day the list was long I rushed beside you in silence Chores before dawn horses
barn, smiles, gate, womb, dirt
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
The Field Of The Owls
Today we gathered the heifers from the hot springs field. Only a few hundred acres, but a maze of hot bogs
snow, hay, barn, noodles, cows
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
Drought
In the midnight she woke. It was not the window rattling against dry putty or wind pulling and sucking
stove, deep, ache, trees, land, pond, rain
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
Playing At Doctor
Poor old broken legged ewe, the flop of it wrings my stomach, the grate climbs my spine like a stair.
leg, scan, blame, hooves
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
On The Raft Of This Day
Sometimes I come up against it flattened like a moth outside a window wanting in where the light is.
glare, union, geese, spring
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
In The Evenig Autumn
As I rode out to check cows calving the light came across the meadwo low soft and in it
blanket, cobwebs, breeze, army, spiders
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
The Cure
I prescribe you this- go to the desert high or low, cold or hammer of Hell shed the clothes of care strip down
time, safe, silver, rest, earth
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
First-calf Heifer
Lying flat resting between heavves of labor's force glaring over her shoulder at me suspicious of me
guilty, labor, skull
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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92
Linda Hussa
Give Us Rain!
Don't we wait for rain in this dry country licking down sweet wild kisses, pretending it's not our heart's desire?
Rain, eye, deeper
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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94
Linda Hussa
Dat So La Lee
Washoe master basket maker stepping through a willow patch long stems comb the sky
slender, she knows, reed
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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95
Linda Hussa
How Tom Became A Cowboy
He looked at me decided to tell the truth not that old story he pretended was true.
I, toliet, uncle, aunt, dog
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
Inside Straight
He loved her long horse face and eyes cocked bright and waxen. her mouth fell open to bray out joy
her, enough, her long
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
Uncle Ben On The Bench
Every afternoon, they say trembling with disease, cane trapping, whispering against his rough jeans a code,
afternoon, they say, bench, horses
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
A Rancher
We lost the ranch in the 30's. We were flat broke. I ran a trap line for cash. Sold my hides in Gerlach.
ranch, cash, Gerlach, check, broke
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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100
Linda Hussa
Ride The Silence
This land asks for quiet passion. The surface still, beneath a thunderous shake of underground rivers grinding through bed rock of the earth's own form.
earth, land, storm, passion,
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
The Man Shoeing A Horse And His Little Girl
He whirled those blue eyes on me flat blue eyes bottomless eyes where the pupil had shrunk up so he was only seeing through that pinhole
blue eyes, past, pupil
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
In The Yellow Hills
Horned road hiding beneath a swag of dusty sage. Your eyes of mirror say you're not there at all. Armor plated softly, the prickles on your skin
eyes, skin, change, armored shell
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
Fate's Girl
Somewhere between the cuff and the hem of life's dark coat there lived a man. Not a man who - as example - your father comes to mind but a father all true of a girl slight and plain to see.
man, fate, the girl
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
FC 11 H-56
108
Linda Hussa
On The Waiting Land
There is a desert it is mine and it is yours badger quiet lives there rent free raven sun comes nearly every day and if it doesn't
desert, badger, sun, snow, sage
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
Desert Crossing
Willows follow the river's twist up the valley. Horse trails blown on south winds brush the sky toward the finish line.
desert, earth, cars,
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
Did You Forget
The sky was startling clear. Only a few stars bright with heat cooled long before we held hands here, before there was such a thing as love.
sky, stars, night
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
Great Basin
In this space - this open-ness where light feels its way along the hills close there is room for knowing
open-ness, hills, silence, uncivilized, earth
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
This Land Is Mine But This Land Is Not Mine
Own the land. Walk the boundary. Stack stones. Stake it out. Mine - the footprints speak. Mine.
mine, land, skin, blood
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
Crane
A thing of flight standing in the reeds touches my heart.
flight, leg
Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields
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Linda Hussa
Under The Hunter Moon
I slip the rifle sling over my shoulder and step into the silence of dawn Geese move through the darkened sky toward the pond Wings cut the quiet
geese, dawn, sheep, lamb,