FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Ed Brown

I'm Teaching school, Not Dead

Some well-intentioned people ask, knowing I pursue new tasks, about the years I spent on those old ranches. And if I carry some regret Or is it something to forget?

conversation, dreams, bless, promise, target, good folks, partner, forever

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Wayne Nelson

Snowville

Snowville was an albino bull, a legend in his time, his two eyes glowed like cinders, and his horns spread sharp and wide. Had a hide of pure white satin, shined like Texas hail,

rules, fight, clown, rodeo, whiskey, beer

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Ed Brown

Town Noise

How do people sleep in town? Commotion lasts all night. Sirens squeal, tires screech, tomcats squall and fight. Lights come on at hint of dusk,

alone, acquired, nervous, tired, quiet,

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Virginia Bennett

Temporarily on the string

There's a dog lyin' chained in someone's yard downtown he's a black and white stock dog shiny coat, but dull of eye with nose on paws, he watches

past, refrain, escape, backyard, butterflies

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

John C. Dofflemyer

Chagoopa Plateau

Where the pine twists short with knotted roots below bare Mt. Kaweah, flows eroded sandy deserts linked in landscapes with the moon, where the snow and shade have squatted

planet, trackless, meadows, heaven, hunting, W.E. DeCarteret

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Virginia Bennett

Guillermo

He followed cows (barefoot) down the stone-walled lane and he carried along a branch to prod the ones who'd lag driving them up Maestas Trail, bound for their summer domain

heaven, bike, highway, plastic, flowers

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

John C. Dofflemyer

More Horse Sense

Mediocre horses have taught me great vocabularies not necessary to enlightening conversations but sulled-up nags routinely bore with egocentricity

horses, vocabularies, bore

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

D.W. Dutton

Bonita

We cursed the drought and thirst dust had blown and mesquite pods burst preserving desert brown and summer death we preserved the worst

sky, rain, windmill, baked, cry, flowers

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Jay Dusard

Goose

Silent, cottony flakes accumulate into a thick blanket on the brown mare. The whiteness clings halfway down her barrel and a third of the way down her hip.

shelter, water hose, snow, pattern, flexed, spooky, ropes, mud

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Peggy Godfrey

My Neighbor, Vogal

Vogal is my neighbor he's nearly twice my age I heard when he'z a young man he drew a cowboy's wage. I can see he's might puzzled

ranch, wedding vows, frozen days, station, pickups

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Peggy Godfrey

I Tried

Seven barely yearlin' bulls was chasin Punkin 'round she didn't "take" on her second half I'd have to haul her to town. Ralph and Vogal worried 'bout ole Punkin's sorry plight

trailer, zoo, truck, mud, duties, rest

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Peggy Godfrey

In Forth-Five-Years

I've learned to see the mountains as more than stone and mud come to know my neighbors as more than flesh and blood I've grown to see the work I do as more than passing time

rhyme, mom, wife, muscle, love, light

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Laurie Wagner Buyer

Smell Of Sage

Autumns ago we rode bareback for sage, crossing and re-crossing river channels, urging our mounts through ancient sloughs, brush-choked islands. We talked then, sometimes sang,

laughter, Canada, jeans, descended, sky, world

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Mela D. Mlekush

Night Lambing

I stop out into the crisp air overhead a blanket of stars sparkle, across the yard another galaxy twinkles on blue-white velvet held in the sphere of a security light.

rusted hook, reward, labored, monster, instinct, warmth

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Jay Dusard

Good Buckskin Horse

Yellow trimmed in black; hipper than Eohippus. Cow huntin' mother.

buck, horse, mother, hunting

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Jay Dusard

Spring, 1965

The tallow truck winch draws my buckskin up the ramp. I hate long goodbyes.

buck, ramp, good bye

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Jay Dusard

Skeeter Hughes

Buckskin horses, Year! I always pay too much of the sons of bitches.

buck, deer, horses, money

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Mela D. Mlekush

Dad Says Faithful Old Horses Deserve To Be Buried

Rex didn't die of old age like you claim thirty years later. That old sorrel cow horse was shot once behind the left ear. You sent my brother John to do the job. You were too soft,

Carcass, explode, death, dance, cold fire

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Pete Bennett

La Empacadora

The old man looks back and slips the aged "M" into neutral as the day's sun grows dim he mutters "cabrone" as he surveys the loose hay and nest of twine trailing behind him "Someday," he thinks,

trade, gringo machine, tractor, Saints

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Cynthia J. Harper

Shipwreck, New Mexico

It's hard to be a cowboy's kid. I mean, let's fat it, they don't hold rodeos in fancy places. I ask Daddy how come this place is called Shipwreck if there is no ocean and no ships.

Motel, fancy places, ships, rodeos

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Linda Wasmer Smith

Violet Wash

It was at this time that I had a curious experience which was useful to me later in understanding what the Cleansing Ceremony of the Navajo does for the patient.

Mary Cabot Wheelwright, canyon, journey, Arizona, camping trip

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Linda Wasmer Smith

Back Home

Rollin, I don't know what is the matter with me, for already I am beginning to like Roswell. --Ruth Kessler Rice, who had just moved with her family to New Mexico, in a letter to a friend left

hunt, shoot, .22 rifle, dance, pony

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Jerry Wright

Before The Buzzer

The news slapped me like the blow of a rawhide quirt. Rumbling through my heart shaking, quaking thunder 'cross the canyons of my soul.

Inconceivable, unbelievable, Christmas, wreck, sorrow

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Jerry Wright

The Four Horse Hitch

As the Monsignor stampedes through the wedding mass in "nine-o", record time-we three cowpuncher heathens, copenhagen taut lips in our pews, give silent thanks to the priest's pity.

traces, Jack Daniels Black, runaway, flood, soul

Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Wayne Nelson

The Lesson

He was grouchier than usual that day, expect me to read his mind, didn't give me time to adjust the stirrups, to my longer than his, teenage lanklegs, just shoved the lariat in my hands.

God, pain, nausea, fishes, bawling herd, town