FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Spook-N The Wolf

FC 11 L-44

Bill Lowman

"The Gates Of Hell - When Things Got Ugly'

I was riden alone that September morn, tour'n high on Wanagans north rim. In search of a charolois bull I'd missed, chances of spottin' him was lookin' slim. Up here in the sinks and giant sage,

slaughter, gumbo, fireman, death, knickers, disaster

Spook-N The Wolf

FC 11 L-44

Bill Lowman

Rodeo Vision

Let me take you on a vision, before we start the show. Of the hands that came before us, before modern day rodeo. Names like Tescher, Tibbs, Gjermundson, Howard, Chase and Canutt.

Harold Lowman, autograph, dead, Anchors Away, Bear Paw

Spook-N The Wolf

FC 11 L-44

Bill Lowman

Average Day

I arose the other mornin' to what appeared an average day, but the Lord had burned his candle, in planning my disarray. Maybe twas just ah warnin',

cured, snow, mental block, project, smart, pardon

Spook-N The Wolf

FC 11 L-44

Bill Lowman

Willie's Ordeal

Again, there sat ol Willie, Square in the middle of the yard. On his haunches he sat so collected, his eyes were defiant and hard. With a tail much longer than average,

master, attack, lessons, respect, panic, cat

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

Christmas In Exeter

Swampers brought the gold harvest in damp December frog -- in field lugs stacked six-high on Grandad's flatbed '46 flat-head Ford spinning down

Gary Soto, crystal, liquid fire, soldiers, sting

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

Old Joe

Suppose it were as simple as what Dad still quotes of Joe Chinowith " I knew a man once made lots of money tending his own business."

young, Indian, iron, bureaucracy, Uncle Sam

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

McClure's Grocery

saturdays I rode with the payroll checks on the thick seat of Dad's red '53 international, from Naranjo to the Ward Ranch then

, jail, pop bottles, shoebox, candy, staples

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

Cattails

Bobcat, bored with squirrel meat & Valley Quail, watched Great Bear snag Salmon in the cobbled rapids below

taste, hunt, fish, investigate, cutbank

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

The Seasoning

For company I ride evening out the High Sierra Trail, the 30-30 worn in scabbard, to thta bluffy stretch not chiseled

rifle, memory, agony, death, forefeet

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

Coloring The Wind

I never thought to draw green lollipop trees nor could I finesse my "m's" to glide out of cottony clouds & envied how your crayons never strayed

James W. Doctor, landscapes, honest, gentle, hope, curlicues

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

The Creek

The coming & going of the creek with Woodducks, the feathered chatter, the mini-flood of floating deadfall,

watergaps, bleed, hurt, trade, hide, pocketbook, pissed-off

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

Fishing

I visit the people-side of Lake Kaweah as summer evening shimmers on blinding ribbons to pink Sierra teeth & find Happy Jack

ski boat, beer, power, focus, pole

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

Decoys In Fog

Waiting for Widgeon & Woodducks, the willow's drip hangs miserably cold from the branch shedding yellow leaves

fog, God, feathered, pray, bad boys

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

In Rust We Trust

Unwrapping a Great Blue Heron from a trout line of twenty #4 Eagle Claws took two men & a boy to wrestle still to snip

gullet, hope, Iron, oxidize, effort

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

Coyote Logic

The frontier rhyme came at a time of space & wild connections. & who'd suppose these Wrangled clothes would opt for new directions.

profit, bar, beer, song, die, lie

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

Docs No Sox

Head pitched loose he picks his way uphill through shale & granite obstacles you see the crooked line constantly redrawn find your eyes

slip, discount, vision, dance, ropes, tune, trust

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

The Ledger Sheet

The dollar multiplies by the pound then by the head in my mind to stand against the interest & principal, the cost of feed on California

ranch, rockpile, butterfly, deer, hillsides, corral

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

Two Hawks

The Cooper's Hawk squints down his hooked beak to the drought-slicked ground focusing, fixed on new dirt that begins to move.

shelter, sycamore, cobbles, limbs, abandoned maze, tunnels

Muses Of The Ranges

FC 11 D-28

John C. Dofflemyer

Muses Of The Ranges

Somewhere roughshod we ride in numbers small to cling to hrses mane and slide aboard. Our city for life, the distant cattle call, we come to hear the last poetic word.

exercise, sleep, survive, dream, spirit, Elko

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

Bringing Home A Bull Riding Rodeo Cowgirl Night Shirt For Teresa From The Reno Airport

During my double Bloody Mary layover sucked down with cigarettes sequestered to an inch-thick plastic fishbowl cubicle

Trailhead, Trading Post, misdress, token, appetites

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

Exercise In Excess

I squeeze the last drop from each lemon, chew the rind & measure love to any intensity, even to the surety of solitary silence.

clarity, eagles, tears, cloud, desire, power, canyon

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

A Brand Of Sure Salvation

Trimming the fat bloodlessly for the cerebral surgery which changes 'ass to grass" is a lost cowboy art without the celestial sign.

neighbors, twine, ride, invincible, survive, offspring, Blake Allmendinger

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

Sierra Lake Girl

My sense of the river spills over granite smoothed to narrows beneath a Sierra lake, some generic snow-shored scoop hidden

Keith Wilson, isolates, reasonable, shield, strange, sun

Cattails & Other Poems

FC 11 D-27

John C. Dofflemyer

Muzzle Flash

We may have dimmed andy's stargaze with consumptive electricity, may have eben dulled their power with dollar-bought genius

20th Century, love, insane, brain, burden, reflection

Muses Of The Ranges

FC 11 D-28

John C. Dofflemyer

Somethin' Thet You Said

And I've been chasin' rainbows forty years, the kind thet's wet an' never disappears; Not sure who put these notions in my head?

nightmares, dreams, persevere, rainbow, mom, dad