FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

147

Linda Hasselstrom

MacDuff: A Scot in the Country

They call it retirement, but just marking boundaries is a bigjob: four bowls of water a day. I get up at six,

cats, butcher, dog, T-bones

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

150

Badger Clark

A Cowboy's Prayer

Oh Lord, I've never lived where churches grow; I love creation better as it stood that day you finished it so long ago and looked upon your work an' called it good.

breeze, rain, prisoner, pardner

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

151

Elizabeth Ebert

The Last Great Rabbit Hunt

Back when we first were married we were short of cash, and so we decided we'd hunt rabbits, Just to make some extra dough.

celebration, macho, hero, sissy, humor

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

152

J.B. Allen

Metamorphosis

He slipped on his slicker and stepped off the porch to a world made of water and wind the hail beatin' tunes on his battered old hat

wagon, life, light, cowpony

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

155

S. Omar Barker

Watchin' Him Drink

When you ride a horse to water, slack the reins and let him drink, you can learn a heap about him that you maybe might not think.

prize, iron, pool, lazy, dumb

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

160

Laurie Wagner Buyer

I Feared Most the Willows

I feared most the willows that bend where slough met ridge where willows grew tall, dark cover for the black moose who bedded there.

vicious, charge, frightful, newborn

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

C.J. Hadley

Site and Sound

prose

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

Wally McRae

A Woman's Place

"A woman's place is in the home." That always has made sense. They're just not built for riding broncs, nor fixin' barbwire fence.

smile, unkind, dope, gut, strange

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

Bill Jones

The Cook's Revenge

Cookin' ain't no easy job, if anyone should ask. And cookin' for a cowboy crew is a downright thankless task.

fault, pie, cuisine, skunk, critters

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

Jesse Smith

Message in the Wind

As you set and look down from the ridge to the valley of green below, you reach up and pull down yer lid as a cool wind starts to blow.

rabbits, pony, bear, hide, meadow

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

Sue Wallis

Lead Mare

That woman there she can be a lead mare has watched horses so long and so well she can tell what goes on in their minds

saddle, Kentucky, outfits, crowd, quit

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

Shadd Piehl

Riding Song

I sit my horse in circles on a hill of half-buried stone hoops, the forgotten remains of nomad lodges.

flowers, eagle, whisper, stories, forever

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

Rod Miller

Buckaroo

In chinks and wild rag, silver spurs, battered hat, leather cuffs, and vest he smells of latigo, horse sweat, and sage, this postcard of the West.

rain, snow, blood, saddle, food, wagon, job

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

William Henry Ogilvie

Hoofs of the Horses

The hoofs of the horses!-Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet;

care, disappointment, memory, rhythm

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

Baxter Black

The Buckskin Mare

He was every burnt out cowboy that I'd seen a million times with dead man penny eyes like tarnished brass that reflected accusations of his critics and his crimes

luck, attack, war, explode

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

Rod Miller

Migrations

I hear them in the evening winging northward- their eager, maybe longing, kind of sound. It reminds me that we'll soon

calves, skies, echoes, urgent, cries

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

Larry McWhorter

Black Draught

"Good Lord, what a dink" I thought as the boss said, "Put that black colt in your string." I'd rode lots of buds

hide, team, beer, broken heart, dream

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

Leon Flick

The Code

I learned my ways with cattle, from the men full wise to battle. They used snaffle bit, and hackamore, and spade.

forgive, saddle, buckaroo, deal

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

Baxter Black

Range Fire

Lighting cracked across the sky like veins on the back of your hand. It reached a fiery finger out as if in reprimand

bear, deer, puppet, mistrust

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

Waddie Mitchell

The Real Dirt on Elmer

Elmer really isn't liked much by us neighbors or his peers for he's pulled his shady dealings and shenanigans for years still,

idea, spa, cured, absurd, grace

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

E.J> Kirchoff

Smart Dogs

The talk in Wilbur's stable was of dogs that fellers had. Was some sure dandy good ones and some others that were bad.

pheasant, bark, snooze, sheep

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

S. Omar Barker

What's a Bronco?

They asked me "What's a bronco!" since they seemed to crave to know. I kinder chawed it over, then I fed it to 'em slow. "A bronc," I says,

pioneer, spin, pitch, action, chestnut

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

Vess Quinlan

By Any Other Name

Just short of sixty-five eating nitro like peppermints cranky and cynical he knew firsthand what poverty can do to a man cowboying for rich folks taught him what money does.

wisdom, doctor, heart, spooky, shy

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

Bruce Kiskaddon

The Little Blue Roan

Most all of you boys have rode hosses like that. He wasn't too thin but henever got fat. The old breed that had a moustache on the lip;

pinyon, smoke, critter, mistake

Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and Poets of the American West

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-60

Buck Ramsey

Anthem

And in the morning I was riding out through the break of that long plain, and leather creaking in the quieting would sound with trot and trot again.

nest, mother, bless, breeze, dream