FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

249

Paul Thomas Lillard

Class

There was a mobster who went to the chair and tho' a killer he showed some flair,

mobster, electric chair, classy

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

250

Paul Thomas Lillard

Heaven

I don't know what Heaven is. It's a mystery, but I know what I would like if it were up to me.

heaven, mystery, joy

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

See You at the Barn

See you at the barn is what you give me as you turn left and I turn right along a ribbon of cedar posts and barbed wire stretched tight. Up and down canyhons, across ridges, I make crooked the straight in deference to equine muscle and slick rock.

barnyard, cowboy, real

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Livestock Man

I need to write a new poem about what it is like, as a woman, to cowboy for a living. But all I can come up with is how much I hate it when my toes get cold.

livestock, woman, care, camping

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Mediocrity

Fear and scared needs to be locked in a vault of understanding, like bucking off hard in the rock. For we each are the true Frankenstein, creating our own monsters.

language, mistakes, mediocrity

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Letter to my Father, In Three Parts

Trotting out Into cold wind. Good-looking men, Fresh horses, Rough country. We've had some rain.

fathers, gratitude, experience

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Teach Me To See

Born blind, And didn't even know it. Thought I could see, thought I was, missed not only the minutiae but the broad vistas.

sight, blind, view

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Wild Grapes on an Ordinary Afternoon

Just an ordinary day until you see them, Just an ordinary day until you do. Wild grapes growing high overhead, Amidst the green, they're dusky blue.

grapes, birds, ordinary

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Damn Fine Hands

Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Rex Allen, Monte Montana, Lone Ranger got no shit on their boots, never faced a norther head-on, or had to lead off the ridge with loose rocks sliding down the cliff.

ranch hand, job, farm hand

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Too Much Water

Where's the happy medium between clinging like a cocklebur and flitting away like downy fluff, off into the wind?

woman, party, love, water

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Chindi Song

He served in the Gulf War, A simple man, but smart, With Music as his rhythm And rodeo in his heart.

veteran, navajo, dawn

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Falling in Love

I'm falling in love and it's nothing like the movies. I'm falling in love with hot coffee mornings and cold whiskey evenings and all the long hours in between.

love, attractions, nature

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

The Harder I Work, the Luckier I Get

You are so lucky! Social media comments, on my page over and over again.

luck, work, labor, cowboy

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Mud

Give me mud, heavy black fragrant, goldfish harbor at the bottom of the trough.

mud, cows, simple

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Temple Grandin for President

Temple Grandin for President, Peace on earth, good will toward men. If we include women and cows and tree frogs, The rest of the world will say amen.

cow, calf, cattle drive

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Things Worth Writing a Poem About

It's the cowboy riding two hours to the top of Elbow Spring, for that last little group of cows, but turning, he rides home again,

cowboy, poetry, story

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Charlie's Song

He was not a very old man Though some days that time seemed close. He was not always a good man But he sure tried harder than most.

father, son, job, experience

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Sad Houses

The previous cowboy had a pig in the house, mud marks at knee-level, urine-soaked shag carpet. I had a two-year old.

house, sadness, unkept

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Nameoflove

The sky is orangepinkgold as he walks from the barn; bestbeerintheworld in his hand; Tired horse rolls in the sand.

tired, thoughts, late

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Lightening Up

Standing witness to what? Blank verse, blank sky, blank days. Cows chew hay dropped behind honking horn that cut the air before 6 a.m.

regret, heifer, sell, thoughts

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

His Time of Day

The old cow moves and stretches her bones from her place in the cedar shade. She calls to her calf, drawing him close, teaching him not to be afraid.

experience, age, cow, worth

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Diné

The banners of noise wave around my head and my toes dig down into the soles of my shoes until I slip off the impediments - the shoes impede my grounding. Now I am surreptitiously barefoot.

heritage, culture, country

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Hearts as Half-Mast

I will not process this on facebook, or twitter, or inciweb where the fire map is an amoeba eating things. They were not young men.

mourning, firefighter, death, fire

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Time's Awastin'

Life's too short to pass up raw oysters shrimp cocktail (lemon wedges, horseradish, vinegar, cocktail sauce, and beer).

life, time, pleasure, short

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Fall Works Poem

I am riding to camp in the evening, The sun resting low in the day. The date marks the start of the season When the wind gets cool, starts to play.

horses, ride, cattle drive, peace