FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
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Linda Hussa
Horse Runner
He rides in darkness folding 'round. The ring of hoof on desert floor ricochets off the moon. He hears each twice and looks to see behind. He is alone. He only feels another's flesh.
desert, uncharted dunes, warning, dogs, past, German Shepherds
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
12
Linda Hussa
The Blue Filly
She is just three. Weaned again. First time form her dead mother small blue head in the flank of a still heart. Second time from a spotted burro who let her stand near as the swept files
barn, soft, relax, stinging rips, sleep
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
13
Sandra Lake Lassen
Soddy
Born in a sod house near a prairie town he talked of desolation and endless whining wind his eyes were filled with it his mother was a school marm who went mad on day
apron, cluster, dream, school
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
23
Ruth Daniels
City Cousin
In her twentieth summer she came to the farm for a visit. At ten I thought her as glamorous as any movie star. A slender girl, sparkling as a spring day, a cap of black hair cut in a wind-blown bob.
police force, sake, heaven, ice skating, promise
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
14
L.B. Doran-Maurer
Paying The Pecos Bill
Just to follow the circuit one last time. The Garden, Sydney, Cheyenne, Calgary, Pendleton, Salinas - and all the one horse one-nighters in between. You try not to notice the dry irony attached
fade, pawnshop, prison, escape, mother, wage
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
15
C. David Hay
The Call Of The Wild
The call of the wild is a restless voice of wind and sky and sea; Beckons all - both great and small with the yearning to be free. It drives snow geese in autumn skies
mountain crest, coyote's cry, mystic tune, desert, God
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
16
Elizabeth Sinclaire
1993 Elko Gathering: Some First Impressions Of Cowboy Poetry
prose
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
22
Thelma Poirier
Sitting Bull
When you led your people north across the plains and rivers to a cold wind did you ever look back see how many were following when you slipped from one ridge to another embraced the valley of the White Mud
night, Rock Creek, aware, canyon, stream
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
24
Elizabeth Bancroft
Winter Soltice
Work horses, eyes closed hair winter length falsely fluffy tailed the wind for warmth. He hailed them over the gate, cracked ice in their trough. They stood hard.
frozen clods, barn, grace, telephone
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
25
Lyn DeNaeyer
Indian Wars...A Trilogy: Throwaways
streets unroll early as this cowtown rubs sleep from its eyes. Restless, he walks the borders of this paved pasture where the aging await the last roundup.
proclaim, attire, ransom paid, church, cafe
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
26
Lyn DeNaeyer
Reservation Blues
Cold wind searches out the cracks under the door; steals across the floor to warm its icy fingers at the fire; creeps under the covers to settle in for a long night. No propane this week.
moon, shoes, cry, coyote howls
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
26
Lyn DeNaeyer
Warriors
He's at home in college classrooms teaching words their parents were afraid to speak. Secrets told only in sweat lodge or other ceremonies. At the WIC clinic, mothers listen as she explains mysteries like nutrition,
breastfeeding, fire, memory, counselor, medicine
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
28
Andy Wilkinson
F.M. 168, Buffalo Lake To Nazareth
This road lay like an invitation, south from the commercial highway, straight into the Llano Estacado's rolling gut where tidees of grass rose and fell in pastel
queen, rodeo, angel wing, waitress, journey
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
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Andy Wilkinson
Horseback On The Llano Estacado
The wind is the oldest river, rhythmic, unceasing, infinite, the pulse of God. Where time is the blood in which the Llano in washed, where the horizon is the line
dreams, patient, river, wind
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
30
Art Coelho
A New Pilgrim's Hymn
America has enough faces to fill a cosmic cowboy hat, and that endless wild rose blooming across Colorado -- that Montana blizzard killing calves at sixty below.
Navajo, pride, patrols, degrees, future, vision
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
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Laurie Wagner Buyer
Hawk Watcher
October morning, frost crisp with an unwonted clarity that sent farm voices reaching across distances too great for eyes, a woman calling children, a man whistling to his work.
invisible, sniff, gold, fear, wings, prize
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
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Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
The Flower Lover
The visitors had been talking about baseball, but somehow Uncle Bart switched off to the subject of flowers jumped right in with, "Folks if you really want to see a sight
gold, wildflowers, heart, alive
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
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Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
Cousin Wyatt's Memory
As far as we remember he never used the word COLOR in his long working years too set in shades of dust and sweat if he looked up he saw a hawk outlined black.
shock, home, mustard, cook, yellow
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
36
Gary Mex Glazner
The Hide
The new white hide of smooth fat. Covering the just skinned cow. Nerves, eyes still twitching so it seemed she was alive. Hanging in the shed behind the house.
barn, .22 rifle., shoot, planes, crash, Cristo mountain
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
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Ken MacDonnell
East Texas Cowboy
Always figured in East Texas runnin' cows was most forgotten and them good ole boys kept busy loggin' out or choppin' cotton. Land's all hilly, full of pines,
Mexico, cactus, coffee, lifetime, ride
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
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Tiffany Darrough
In My Father's Sea
He came in from breaking the ice on the pong, "even cattle drinks on Sunday," his hands pressed hard through torn brown gloves that served no purpose I could see.
footsteps, padding, smell, blue eyes, Irish seas, hair
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
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Tiffany Darrough
Early Morning In Hollister
he holds me in the wooden bed he built, while our children sleep in another room, and tells me stories of his cowboy days, chasing mustangs guided by a morning moon.
moon, coffee, herd, grown up
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
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Laurel Speer
Mules
A mule is born with a full set of teeth. He can't breed. He'll walk a straight row and never step on a young plant, like a horse. If you pair mules, they should be the same weight.
respect, foolish, drunk, haunt, truth
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
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Doris Bircham
He tells it like it was
Over thirty years I bin ranchin' an' I ain't seen nothin' like it before just out ridin' checkin' my herd one evenin' when I sees this cow tryin' to calve an' a mean ol' cow she is too an' I see the tips of the
backwards, twins, kill, calf
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1993
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
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Doris Bircham
Coffee Row
They gather each morning at the back of the old store where a window outlines grass-fringed slopes and patchwork strips.
cattle action, rodeo, asthma, town, smoke