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
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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
44
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
45
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
45
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
45
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
46
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
47
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
47
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
48
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
49
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
50
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
52
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
54
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
Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
56
Laurie Wagner Buyer
Buffalo Days
By the time of your birth the buffalo had been gone nearly 100 years. Still, one spring in your 30's, you sharpened your lance laced with feathers and beads, and raced your new spotted stallion round and round the meadow.
summer, surprise attack, blanket, scorched ridge, disappeared buffalo
Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
57
Rod McQueary
Life and Times
When they ask of Life, what will I say? Can I describe time that swirls, flits with fickle castanets, and disappear? A shrinking, self-swallowing serpent?
celebration, surviving winter, hope, intensity, trap, primitive
Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
58
D.W. Dutton
Equi-Dawn
Out there on the rolling plains I saw them on a masa they were four horses crested necks and arching tails legs curled they reared against the sunrise dust
reckless, sprints, rhythm, flames, muzzle, peace, trust
Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
59
Jay Dusard
Dally Ropin'
Half-ton of beef caught. Take your wraps around the horn, then count your fingers.
beef, horn, fingers, wraps
Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
59
Jay Dusard
Haiku For '92
All day I faced industrial waste, without the taste of water.
water, waste, industrial, taste
Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
60
Ruthie Clark
It's Time
Adolescent sweet gum models her new prom dress snowy blackberry blossoms promise sweet fruit kittens peek through half-opened eyes at a universe of feet a spangle-legged foal takes his first dance lesson
lullabies, dreams, illuminate, azaleas
Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
61
Ruthie Clark
Cavalier Reborn
Young cavalier so handsome, dashing, debonair born of southern gentility educated in the classics and art of charming courting hoop-skirted,
dance, blood, captivates, cowboy, beauty, oaks
Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
62
Lisa Quinlan
A Little Red Self-Propelled Baler
Four o'clock summer mornings when the dew was just right for making sweet, green hay I could hear my dad softly wake my brothers and I wished it for me too. But my legs were not long enough
farm sale, perfectly, home, awake, machines, car, crews
Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
64
Lisa Quinlan
Crumbling Castles
Eager for adulthood little girls dream of perfect playhouses with the latest kitchen sets and dolls that came to life with the snap of tiny fingers.
anxious, dreams, castles, marble, spark, wine, fireplace, guests, innocent
Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
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Myrt Wallis
Love And War
For my sons and for Rod and Bill sons of my heart Young Crow warriors rode into war their hearts filled with joy wanting to live with courage and honor
danger, enemy, sorrow, eager, warriors, duty, fault
Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
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Kent Stockton
The Long Shadows Time
The greens are never greener nor clearer, the coyotes bark; The details never cleaner than int he magic just 'fore dark. Those moments just before the dusk
inspire, rhyme, love, quiet, pleasant, retires, bay
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
8
Ed Brown
In The Eye Of The Beholder
"Of course I'll come," I answered, when I got the foreman's call. I like to help the neighbors when I can. My irrigation water wouldn't miss me much at all, and there's not a better thing to do than brand.
cattle guard, outfit, target, home, calf, horn, born, fart, wasted energy