FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
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John C. Dofflemyer
In Space
The street signs become the scentposts for coyotes and sidewalks the stage for the rat's rampant race. The nesters stay cowered past stout chains and bolts
sense, dimension, existed, pretense, resisted, revolves, sediment
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
70
Larry McWhorter
The panhandle
Where the short grass struggles daily, racing wind to claim each rain before it sucks the precious drops up in it's skyward drain.
dreamer, vision, rhyme, summer, brutal, demand
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
71
Larry McWhorter
The Gate
Once painted white with loving care it's now a grayish brown with scattered specks of remnant paint. The free end drags the ground.
enhance, scent, replace, brute, bolts, threads
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
8
Bill Wood
Fleeting Moments
A quarter-mile from the ranch house lookin' off toward ol' Sand Creek a 'top a high divided a lonely rider gazes out at a stretch of open prairie
homestead, lonely, pride, successes, veteran
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
10
Neil Meili
Round Up
It's about the hardest dirtiest best work a man can get. The pride of the heeling rope, thrown snake quick from a good horse and the slow steady pull;
desire, hot irons, old fence
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
11
Neil Meili
Memories Of Three Or Four
I remember being nestled in that old ranch kitchen, deep in the warmth of washday monday. The maytag's liquid sound mixing with the gentle driving chugs
gas engine, laundry, safely, heartbeat, rhythm
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
12
Teresa Jordan
Beyond Conflict
You are neighbors whether you want to be or not, because the land itself unites you. It links you as you both walk on it today, and you will both lie in it together
Navajo, demographic sense, anger, intimately, competence, body language
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
24
Laurie Wagner Buyer
The Bus To St. Ignatius
How many times going and coming have i tallied the miles on this bus to St. Ignatius? Going Friday afternoon when pallid sun fails to brighten Bozeman snow,
camp, beauty, Indian, highway, haircut
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
26
C.J. Berkman
The American Dream
My country, 'tis because of thee that I sit tonight in a vacant South Texas pasture beside a muggy stock tank, drink straight whiskey from the bottle,
loan, cash, quit, gentle, honest
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
28
Ron Chappell
Tonight!...Telluride!
Down the Escalante in the early snows of spring comes a one-armed cowboy pushing ponies, wild and lean. "Mustangs! Mustangs!"
pleasures, thunder, conspired, freezing wind, fate
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
30
Myrt Wallis
Boots
She sat back on the edge of the raised flower garden and sighed. The rock edging was sun warm and felt comforting. Remembering his strong, brown, scarred hands laying these rocks, she began to cry.
flower, medication, astonishment, painful, judgment
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
33
Laurie Wagner Buyer
Geese
Chopped ice melts on the stove, to wash, then wring, then hang the cloths that stiffen like disjointed scarecrow limbs. I eat fried slices of a deer's heart and watch long icicles mirror leaden
sky, farewell, numb, ribbon, drift
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
33
Laurie Wagner Buyer
She Waits
The land was never ours for all our wanting. We came, desired, took. We never asked. Like a woman taken, left, she remains silent, scarred, alone in an aloness we cannot feel
wrinkle, skirt, apron, complexion, undiscovered
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
34
Larry McWhorter
A Trilogy For Cissy
It's a breezy ten degrees, December 1985. A hooded, rather slow looking boy walks down the street carrying an egg crate. Not a disturbing sight, but unusual.
resist, fetch, enthusiastic, idle, dollars, drizzly, babysitter
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
37
Jim Hammons
Practicality
"If he humps up to buck, step down and kick him in the belly." Were the rancher's word to the green cowboy on a cold morning words neither cruel or kind,
motivated, survive, waste energy, broken hand
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
38
Joe Greig
Booge
This ranch hand strode into the room at the end of a long hard day, where we were waitin' supper and a chance to draw our pay. His hair was long
destiny, voice, tame, technique
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
40
Jim Shelton
Thou, Beautiful Above All Women
High in the Sierra Madres lies a place of which I dream -- A meadow flat in a pine-clad canyon at the head of a mountain stream. There are trout there in the water,
camp, creep, Spanish tongue, paradise, spirit
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
42
Peggy Godfrey
Real Wealth
My neighbors don't live close to me but we've each got our niche government says this area's poor our secret is: we're rich. My wealth won't buy insurance
cottonwoods, rainbow, pain, gold, diamonds
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
43
Ruthie Clark
Cajun Cowboy
Come travel down south to Acadian. To the bayous of south Louisiane. Where the mud is the dust of a humid land. That evolved the breed of Cajun cowman. He is maybe part human,
luck, pistol, snow, sweetheart, starrs
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
44
Sue Wallis
Jenny Jo
In the night she stands and fiddles by the window of the cabin while her sweetheart rustles cattle from the rivers to the West never knowing, never caring
barn, springtime, moon, music, loyal mind
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
46
Paul Zarzyski
The Roughstockoholic's "Just-One-More-Last-One" Blues
What I would pledge for one more horse? I'd drive a Rambler, scrap the Porsche, I'd swear off beef and live on borscht, and I'd improve my rhymes, of course-- I'd dee-vorce free-verse for that horse.
asset, Nikes, moon, cannon, vow, kiss
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
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John C. Dofflemyer
Traveling LIght
Like a leafless oak sentinel silhouetted on a near ridge, nothing is more apparent than the fact that twenty-first century man is a victim of his environment.
ambition, productive, evolution, aspiration, foundation
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
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Jon Forrest Glade
Route 138
Near St. Stephens Mission the asphalt is stained with cheap white wine and the blood of Arapahoes. Stumbling in the dark, looking for an answer,
happy, hunt, headlights, blood
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
51
Jim Green
The Morgan Place On Dry Wood Creek
What was his name, that guy who bought the old Morgan homestead to raise draught horses when almost everybody had gone over to tractors?
winter, floorboards, beam, spring
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
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Jim Green
Mr. A.B. McMurdo, Bookkeeper, Fraser & McRoberts Hardware
Just received your warm letter about my thirteen year old bill. You said you thought the bill could have been paid a long time ago and you couldn't understand
barn, horses, credit, sky high, fortune, bank