FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

Country Melody

The lightning hammers edges of the mountains dim and dark. It splits the clouds with searing fingers burning bright and stark. Loud thunder rides along as sidekick

suit, breeze, spurs, bay, storm clouds

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

The Broken Spur Cafe

Scarred, weathered hands pull back five chairs that scrape a well-worn floor. Bent bodies slowly kiss cold seats, old age hard to ignore. The daily cafe campfire blazes

rugged men, church, hesitate, smoke

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

Fence Feud

It started way back in the spring the day that he was born. His mama broke right through the fence. Her hide was scraped and torn. Her plan to get away and rop her calf far from the herd

scrub, patient, dentist, attire, career, Kalmbach's farm

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

She Was Reckless

She dazzled with her beauty and her quuick intelligence. Admired for her duty and her level headed sense she made herself at home in camp

flame, combat, bullets, whiskey, outpost vegas, reckless

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

A Spotted Past

Hooves striped and swift respond in answer to a cowboy's touch. The appaloosa's agile body spirals without much direction from the rider as his instinct moves the herd.

danger, war, bison hunt, breed, skill, kill

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

The Pilfering Poet

He wears a linen duster as an icon of his trade that sanctions theft and thiev'ry in his cold corrupt crusade. He bears a grudge toward business

threats, toxic, regrest, novel, rumor

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

Cowboy Etiquette

Have you ever noticed how a real cowboy will tip his hat, how he takes it off his head indoors no matter where he's at? This authentic country cowpoke's codes

immune, dusty years, dead, duck, debts, disguised

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

Old Joe

The sun has paid attention radiating scorching heat that coats and shrouds the landscape like a buckskin-colored sheet. A road twists through the chaparral then slithers out of view

trip, spare, disbelief, peaceful

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

White Out

WInd screamed across the high plains where the grass had browned and dried. It carried snow upon its back then spread it thick and wide.

storm, seized, collar, reins, guard, defeat

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

The Devil's Lair

A brazen breeze has shed the chilly coat it wore upon the San Francisco Peaks. The dust rides with it like a hired hand

forgive, mankind, peace, deceased, superstition

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

Pullin' Leather

Bronc riders pace the area as they make their deals with God. They'll learn if he was list's nin' when they give the gate a nod. Bill envies these skilled

conscious, skill, pride, Sloppy Joe, Jimm Carter, tribute

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

The Outlaw

I never knew a gentle touch that nuzzled, rubbed or brushed. My fated clash with humans saw me slashed and gashed, not crushed. My spirit blazed like wildfire

drunk, caveman, buffalo, boss, helpless, rodeo

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

Three Toes

He lusts for blood that's warm and drips from throats of fresh killed prey. Obsession drives his craving for the victims that he'll slay. Mere hunger's not the force that strikes with terror,

pursuits, executes, amateur, survive

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

A Woman's Wiles

The canyon walls once echoed with the violence and greed of cattle barons' crude malignant appetites. Their breed would prey upon the small man

craft, dream, angry soul, spawn, Amazon, jail

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

Mustache Maude

Winona nearly has outlived frontier noteworthiness, discounted like a fallen woman, damned and dispossessed. The railroad never will pass through,

dreams, alcohol, rancher, graveyards,Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

Stagecoach Mary

The .38 is smokin'. She has fired every shell. Her adversary's emptied-out his six-shooter as well. The mission employs both these hot-heads doing heavy work.

smirk, damages, dream, redeems, failure, interview

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

The Petticoat Revolt

Pale petticoats flap in the breeze that bears their righteous rage. The sisterhood is mounted, riding full out, set to wage a war against the demon that dispatched domestic bliss

social style, warriors, pretest, mobile bar

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

Scrapin' By

The west was hard as bedrock as it kicked and bucked untamed. It trampled countless women, left them mangled, mauled and maimed. Some girls who bloomed grew

beauty, faithful, God, gambling, trade, gambling

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

War Paint

I am moving Robe Woman and have seen twenty-three summers. I am the daughter of Crawler and sister of One Hawk. The Hunkpapa Sioux are my people.

hunted, ancestors, reservation, peace, danger, promise

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

Bird Woman

Lewis and Clark did not name a single landmark to honor their teenage interpreter during the two years of their expedition.

camp, instruments, records, journals, language, buffalo track shield

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

A Bad Reputation

The flat dry land lifts up its skirt and runs into the hills. A searing sun sits high above the desert where it spills its heat onto a loping coyote,

western tale, Sonoran Desert, outcast, reputation, replace, regret

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Vess Quinlan

By Any Other Name

Just short of 65 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, impress, payphone, shy, spooky

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Sue Wallis

Good Clean Land Still Wild

You'll never understand cow country's love for our ranching land still wild and free and clean until you've drunk your water from a tumbling creek drawn your breath on a pure,

sagebrush flowers, squall, ranchers, earth

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Wallace McRae

Our Communion

He said, "This bread's my body." He said, "My blood's the wine." "Remember when you take it, the blood and body's mine." Our bodies are this fertile land.

organic mud, greedy, cremation, unsanctified, forgive

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Sue Wallis

Keeping Her Free

Cowfolks ride the Earth proud and tall knowing their business don't hurt her at all raising beef on good grass that'll grow back again just trimming her hair,

excrement, pure, naked, special, smile