FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Regarding the Others

FOLK COLL 11 E-24

Maria Lisa Eastman

Bad Business

In a snowy cornfield between our gate and the highway, hungry mothers have been running the fence.

winter, hunger, cattle

Regarding the Others

FOLK COLL 11 E-24

Maria Lisa Eastman

You can Lead a Horse to Water but You Can't Make him Drink

You can't smell the lion crouched above the sweet, cold spring. You don't hear him cough a quiet whiff of death.

danger, patience, alert

Regarding the Others

FOLK COLL 11 E-24

Maria Lisa Eastman

One of the best things I know is the owl calling from the ancient box elder who stands hunched near the corral, like a crooked old man.

owl, hunt, winter

Regarding the Others

FOLK COLL 11 E-24

Maria Lisa Eastman

About a Doe

Yesterday riding out on my tall horse, I came upon a doe down behind some thick brush.

doe, starving, gun

Regarding the Others

FOLK COLL 11 E-24

Maria Lisa Eastman

High Country Herd

Late at night a boy works below in the basement. A single bulb lights what he shapes.

ranch, broncs, songs

Regarding the Others

FOLK COLL 11 E-24

Maria Lisa Eastman

The Old Ones

On a hill above the river, with my friends beside me, I visited them all.

hill, horses, plants

Regarding the Others

FOLK COLL 11 E-24

Maria Lisa Eastman

Best Left Unanswered

Surely Rodin had hands like yours, broad, with long sure fingers and ropey veins.

longing, age, grace

Regarding the Others

FOLK COLL 11 E-24

Maria Lisa Eastman

Emmy

Grey mare, why did they fear you so?

scars, mare, crazy, trust

Regarding the Others

FOLK COLL 11 E-24

Maria Lisa Eastman

How Do I Love You?

If I count the ways that I love you, like in a well-loved poem we read over candlelight around a dinner table

love, evidence, example

Regarding the Others

FOLK COLL 11 E-24

Maria Lisa Eastman

Thirsty Cows

Once I heard a man claim a crazy thing, while standing in front of his slide, addressing a mostly scholarly audience.

thirst, clean, water

Regarding the Others

FOLK COLL 11 E-24

Maria Lisa Eastman

Crow Greets

How many times in one day, for instance, do you miss a greeting, Sent to you by someone, anyone?

greeting, crow, imagine

Regarding the Others

FOLK COLL 11 E-24

Maria Lisa Eastman

How to Tell a Coyote to Go Away

Last night I heard heard her sing; The dogs went crazy - they'd like to join in, but lost their voices, traded for regular meals.

musician, easy, lifestyle

Regarding the Others

FOLK COLL 11 E-24

Maria Lisa Eastman

Returning

Yesterday when we came back to the house, a bird fluttered in broken fits on the lawn.

bird, recover, death

Regarding the Others

FOLK COLL 11 E-24

Maria Lisa Eastman

Three Lights

Driving home last night, hearing your news, dark grew around me.

bonfire, light, shine

Regarding the Others

FOLK COLL 11 E-24

Maria Lisa Eastman

War Bridle

I used to be a girl who ride bucking horses. Not in a rodeo or anything glamorous, just regular horses who bucked - horses owned by people who didn't want them to buck.

train, buck, change, emotions

Lessons From Leo

FOLK COLL 11 Q-2

Vess Quinlan

A Scattering of Ashes

The old cowboy left instructions on how and where his remains were to be placed.

ashes, death, funeral, humor

Lessons From Leo

FOLK COLL 11 Q-2

Vess Quinlan

Judy (Part One, The Lie of Omission)

Most teenagers would have accepted the restrictions doctors recommended and caring parents insisted on to prevent further damage to polio crippled legs. Running away from home and the galling rules was not working out exactly as I had imagined.

lies, job, trust building, logger

Lessons From Leo

FOLK COLL 11 Q-2

Vess Quinlan

Judy (Part Two, Part of the Crew

Tom came back from Albuquerque with hundred dollar bills stuffed in an envelope to cover the bad check sawmill owner Willie Spoo had written for the logs we had decked.

logging, work, strength

Lessons From Leo

FOLK COLL 11 Q-2

Vess Quinlan

The Apology

Did you ever step up on a horse In the chill before the dawn And leave a woman wondering How long you would be gone?

youth, carelessness, apology

Lessons From Leo

FOLK COLL 11 Q-2

Vess Quinlan

Leo Makes a Threat

We lambed in January even though temperatures at night were sometimes forty below zero. Early lambing meant we would have fat lambs ready before the large numbers of lambs from the high mountain ranges could be sent to market.

lamb, threat, care, ewe

Lessons From Leo

FOLK COLL 11 Q-2

Vess Quinlan

The House of Hoover

The old veteran was named Tee Hee. His roommate was a pack-rat named Hoover. maybe Hoover had heard the war stories late at night and might know what happened in World War One that caused Tee Hee to fear crowds, but none of the town folks knew because the old man would not speak of it.

kindness, friendship, veteran

Lessons From Leo

FOLK COLL 11 Q-2

Vess Quinlan

Rain in May

It rains at Flagstaff and Gray Mountain at Cameron, Tuba City, Tonalea, at Cow Springs and Kayenta, at Dennehotso, Mexican Water Red Mesa, and Teec Nos Pos.

rain, spring, bloom, transform

Lessons From Leo

FOLK COLL 11 Q-2

Vess Quinlan

Leo's Crooked Cousin

I could tell he was upset when we started to the house after loading he last of our lambs in the big triple deck semi trailer. Leo was mumbling to himself and shaking his head.

nickel, trick, lamb

Lessons From Leo

FOLK COLL 11 Q-2

Vess Quinlan

Stewardship

It is fall again harvested alfalfa fields neat and trim and cared for are ready to welcome cattle home from the mountains.

harvest, cattle, care

Lessons From Leo

FOLK COLL 11 Q-2

Vess Quinlan

The Second Time Around

They share a meal at a quiet corner table.

date, love, food