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

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

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Shadd Piehl

Riding Song

I sit my horse in circles on a hill of half-buried stone hoops, the forgotten remains of nomad lodges. Impatient he stamps a red flowered cactus.

whispers, forever, heart, live, old, scatter

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Shadd Piehl

Dakota Highways

Midnight grins a wide open moon. they sky glows on another night spent cramped in a car, going down the road. To a rodeo on the reservation

race, Missouri, celebration, lights, clouds

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Shadd Piehl

My Grandfather's And Father's Horses

The two old-timers stand out west of town with maybe a few cows to share a bale and ground feed each morning. King, over thirty, is swaybacked, slow and still impossible to catch

tricks, shadows, shy, pasture, sale

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

James K. Woodbury, Sr.

Crow Eyes

It's spring again and from 'neath the snow, crystal clear, the freshets flow. As under scudding clouds I ride where shy, mud-spattered crocus hide amidst the tender fresh green shoots

hillside, past, pillow, sky, saddle

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Sue Wallis

Throw Back The Gates Contemporary Cowboy Poetry

A creative and literary movement possessing vitality and power the likes of which the world has seldom seen resides in the American West.

phenomenon, book, competition, promise, debate, wind, letters, honorable

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

J.B. Allen

Sandin The Ruff Spots

While thumbin thru this magazine of ropers and their ilk the pictures spread before me made it seem as smooth as silk. Them ropers all stepped lightly

queen, trouble, blame, famous

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

J.B. Allen

Fissures

layin snuggled in yore soogans on some frosty winter's eve with the cavvy grazin quietly 'cross the fence, brought a plumb relaxin feelin knowing "Bob" was out on guard and, for once, the boss's IDY made some sense.

reckless, life, berserk, symptom, work

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

J.B. Allen

Kings And Slaves

Fierce as grizzlies in the springtime proud a sage hens caught in rut tough as rawhide cured in season hard as granite shavins-but insde

farmer, perspective, wagon, boss

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

J.B. Allen

New Trails

hard old shells protectin feelins lay in shambles at our feet as the lancets pierce the armor grown immune to club or sleet

Mavrick, emotions, poultice, fortress, wounds, bleed

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

C.E. "Rusty" Fryer

Coming Yearling

Last fall when I was ride'n with them outfits over East, I stopped at young Bill Miller's he has the home place leased. You see he married old Scott's daughter, the one that used to sing,

vaccinate, calf, spring, smiles

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Ron Chappell

Cliff Dwellers

Shy...they hover in the shadows along the broken ledges still as idols in the twilight as they contemplate the scene from their dwellings in the darkness

sunset, soul, mystery, breeze, ghost, mind

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Ron Chappell

Red Feather

Below the Devil's Staircase on the Ruby-Anthracite i was tracking run-off ponies in the early evening light I was just a young man

bow, cry, seldom, drunk, awful, die

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Tom Sharpe

Changes

Pulling calves, feeding hay, very seldom time to play. Patching up Pickup truck, Pulling out bull that's stuck. Mowing down summer hay, winter time fed away.

poor, town, money, ranch, thin, cold