FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Cattails & Other Poems
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
Rusty
Down the way gone reverently 'round the way ahead patiently dad's red horse and yesterday lie still at the endge of the road
springs, field, calves
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
Poem #3
A coldness starker than this cold night grasps my essence everything to make me bolt away from civilized hurt and cultivated
knowledge, laugh, wild, Indian, bluecoat army
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
Alder Creek
Running between two aging alders and beneath a fallen fir a silvery stream of changing waters makes a path obscure.
stones, mud, winter, silent, river
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
A Men's Ry
Mem'ry holds where the vision fails boxcars full of heads and tails in colors cast from black to white through weathered boards
leak, wrinkles, nag, rainbow, strong, asphalt
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
Twenty Years
Twenty years between one war and the next I am alive neither man nor boy but both. A man's brow perhaps receding hair and
child, older, growing, singing, heart, oak
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
Fox Sox 'N Bonds
TIme took the best the brown mare had to give. Her middle years, she seldom got relief. I pushed her hard, the way a young man
help, fears, arena, wraps, compute, pain
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
Gentle Teacher
He was no gentle teacher, his father never praised and I fear I've done as poor with a son thet's prit near raised. He may never need to gather the strays
rush, folks, gone, short-cut
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
Calves
Cold dark morning frozen blades and a shiver from an empty night dimming stars trying to beat the sun to hilltops on horseback reddened rays
alive, suffer, dawn, steam, doubt, lost, instinct, care, love
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
Just Living
Small feet wandering beneath the pines beside a stream and always will memories cast in bedroom scenes there,
vanity, traffic, civilized, trial, education
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
Katie's Hug
Santa barbara was my safe outpost between mules and an l.a. education cute and pensive Katie lent her hand and snyder's
mules, obvious, outlast, kinship, freeway, rattlesnake, Katie Doctor
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
Sleepless Nights
It seems freshness finds some space before summer sunrise after sleepless nights and in the balance begins anew its quest for survival
heat, sapce, reason, hungry, hawk, feel, fortunate, loneliness
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
Passion
Passion seems to strike those unfamiliar chords with urgent expectancy, be it animal-like in a pastoral setting or
favor, apart, create