FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Peggy Godfrey

Hey, Cowboy

I may not have your anatomy nor weigh the pounds you do but, fella, let me tell ya I'm not in awe of you. Winters are cold to both of us

age, heifers, sex, labor, polite, irrigation water

Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Lisa Quinlan

You Ask

If I was lonely as a little girl and I think about the question and the word lonely. I'd run as fast as I could through waist high hay fields and count how many times the thick,

pretend, lambs, smell, orphan, tangled

Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

B. Lynne McCarthy

Another Drought

Fear closes in, running headlong at my rimrock edge of sanity, a jaded horse that clatters across my soul, ribs heaving beneath a hide lathered white.

nothing, survivor, scorch, bullet, homesteader

Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Gary Mex Glazner

Cows And Boys

Down the chute into the metal V shaped cage the heifer goes to test for motherhood. I pull the bar tight against her neck, cousin Mike steps down from the fence

theater, pregnant, taste, knob, kiss, popcorn

Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

J.B. Allen

Grist

There's a place back in them hills that's sorta hid and hard to find where a spring of crystal water leaves the rock and starts to wind

cabin, chipmunks, justice, silence, drama

Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Rod McQueary

Instinct

The huey crew made a routine hop fast in and out to get some local folks the old viet shuffles up his flickering eyes crooked gold-glint smile tries to hide his fear

sin, mistake, death, boot, polish

Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Rod McQueary

White Wall

There ought to be another wall white, bright, pretty in a grove of trees with picnic tables, dance floor, and a Viet Vet ragtime band.

laugh, candidates, marriage, child, education