FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

Revenge In The Sangre De Cristos

Senora Baca rocks in a weathered chair that has been repaired with glue and piano wire. and stares at the rocky Sangre de Cristos, glowing in the sunset like some funeral pyre.

guiude, license, bloody, revenge

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

La Empacadora

The old man look back and slips the aged "M" into neutral as the day's sun grows dim. He mutters "cabrone" as he surveys the loose hay and nest of twine trailin behind him.

trade, ball pein, cries, saints

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

There In New Mexico

If it's true a place can own you, can bottle-neck your memory, can funnel all your thinking into dreams of only there. And like ghosts, its people haunt you

family, wilderness, outhouse, mail, viewpoint

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

I Like To Think I Know

The chinook wind that always comes and exhales it's warm breath slipping down from off of Oso Ridge to brush the bottomlands to toy with naked branches,

pegeon, spy, heart, honest, El Grande

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

The Electrician's Nightmare

When two old friends are talking, there's no guessin' what'll be said. In the midset of their discussion, a joke might rear it's ugly head. And so, this is a true tale

heater, died, muzzle, disease, grounded

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

Night Watch

When the full moon rises at Twin Springs and the night wind begins to howl. The coyotes tremble in fear of something both both friendly and foul. For something (or someone) lurks in the shadows

football, gloom, poker, green eye, haunted, fun

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

Beneath Her Windowsill

In a one-room, bark-on cabin with stove wood stacked outside the door, a Coleman lamp swung from a beam in that camp perched on a hill. At a table, she sat reading.

woodstove, tortured, scream, conceive

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

For Grampa

So, now it's come down to this: You live on in a picture on the wall. Tho' you died maybe 30 years ago, it doesn't seem that long at all. Not so long ago that my dad and I

photograph, dry stone wall, trainer, share, impress

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

The Belle Of Blue Flower Park

As I sit inside my warm house and the embers in the stove slowly die and the wind blows the snow against the window panes, the ghost of Sadie Connor glides by.

skiing, restaurants, dress, neighbors, God, critters

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

Storms On The Divide

I saddled up the balck Morgan Mare, Headed up through the timber toward Cottonwood Crik. She danced from the hint of a storm in the air but i figgered we'd get the job done quick and soon we'd be home,

homestead, sick, God, hell, lamp

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

The Fore-Telling

They stood there on old Baldy, each from a different way of life. He was a cop from St. Louis and she was a rancher's wife. As they scanned the nearby woods for game,

soul, dead, mountains

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

Ma and Pa Eugene

They live not far from here, just a couple miles down the road. And they're the closest thing to folks that I have evern knowed. They got a little log cabin, and an outdoor latrine.

heaven, rich, horny-toad, Belgian team, queen

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

I Wish I Could Go

The twisted, weathered, cedar posts, connected by rails of lodgepole pine formed a corral that played unwilling host to a mustang found near the Utah line. It was in the summer of eighty-eight.

tank, trailer, mouse, prison, whispered

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

The Hazards Of Braggin

"I always have a walkin' horse," the cowboy said with pride. "The one that's walkin' fastest is the only one I'll ride. "And if I'm workin' with a colt

teach, train, school, failed

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

Thoughts From Behind The Window Pane

I stand here at the windwo, lookin' beyond the kitchen garden to the shed. Today's dinner is one the stove, cookin' 'cause the crew will be expectin' to be fed. I have to admit I'm gettin' older.

die, pride, gold, pair, young, snorty horse

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

Just A Thought

You read about them daily, those heroes of our time. The new vaccines, the theories, just watch your profits climb. All the new technology, cell grazing, A.I. and all. Embryo transplants,

EPD, trophies, gain, prais, greet, sunrise

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

Prodigal Son

On their creaking, A-Fork saddles, they had left the cattle in the shimmering grass of summer range. They'd trailed behind 'em all day, Dusty Jim was on his bay, and Jigger rode a roan that he called "Mange".

coyote, pry, The sweet by and by, beers, hell, fire, wild oats

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

Two Roads

I was out ridin' one late afternoon. It was about the twenty-eight day of June. Explorin' new trails; on ridges and vales, through aspen alive with lupine in bloom. This was a new trail to my horse and I,

arrow, assailed, ignored, grade

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

Cowboy Creation

In the beginning, God created light, but needed a place for it toshine so he put together the heavens, Some clouds that looked just fine. He spoke the word and it was done -

night-rider, lodgepole, fickle, breeze, bible

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

The Sermon On The Mount

I sit here on my steadfast horse while the moon begins it's nightly course. I'm ridin' night-herd, so I guess there's time to reflect upon this life of mine. My right leg is crooked over the saddle horn

wagon, God, spring, grant

Legacy Of The Land

FC 11 B-72

Virginia Bennett

The Rain

It'd been a long, dry summer, come to think of it, so was the spring. No rain for more days than I could number and only faith made me plant anything. The prairie, parchment crisp and thirsty,

tease, Jesus, sky, wet dirt

Where Shadows Are Born

FC 11 B-73

Henry Real Bird

Opening

After sittin' between the risin' moon and the settin' sun among the many colors of the pink and the blues from a little north, left of the sun risin'

imaginary, spirit, necklace, grandstands, flame

Where Shadows Are Born

FC 11 B-73

Henry Real Bird

A Cowboy

Thoughts & feelings from the shadow of a rainbow in the wind what's good, there's alot, they say usin' yesterday in today wantin' to join, a lot more good days in tomorrow for winters,

viking,, medicine, crescent moon, sage, rampage

Where Shadows Are Born

FC 11 B-73

Henry Real Bird

The Horse

Days that are good, thoughts that are good, talk that is good we want to use to give people hearts that are good, we want to use the four winds that are good

fake control, horse, fire, left behind, wolf, gift,

Where Shadows Are Born

FC 11 B-73

Henry Real Bird

Tall That's Light

Goin' on fresh snow, snows been fallin' several days. The ground, all is white, sagebrush tops stickin' out of snow, ridin' throught snow, it's quiet, river where it goes

pine trees, sun, winter day, singing