FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
178
Paul Zarzyski
Zarzyski Cures the Burning of His Bro, Zozobra, "Old Man Gloom"
With his red-hot grimace of teeth glowing like a blast furnace grate, with lunacy blazing in his pizza-pan pupils,
disaster, burn, fire
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
180
Paul Zarzyski
The Coldest Place I've Ever Been
Do not let the palm trees fool you. Sacramento merely looks more tropical than Great Falls, Montana in late November where it snows horizontally out of the north
cold, travel, freezing
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
182
Paul Zarzyski
Feeding Horses in Richard Hugo's Fishing Parka
An easy swim-stroke every morning, every evening, I float into the great big man's coat, the thermometer some days burning-out at minus 50,
horses, freezing, ice
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
183
Paul Zarzyski
"...So Just How Do You Stand The Vicious Winters?"
The forecasters swore on their weather balloons swore in serious rhyme - "heavy and steady so better get ready" - swore the behemoth storm out of the north was freight-training its way,
winter, freezing, bundling
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
188
Paul Zarzyski
Smart Mouth - Mandibular Prognathism
Novocain turning my face to stone, I learn it"s my last remaining wisdom tooth Doctor Olsen is crowning in porcelain
dentist, surgery, mouth
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
190
Paul Zarzyski
Birthday Virtue-of-Defiance Ritual After 60
I drop my cosmic drawers to moon all of the dark heinous forces
birthday, drinking, aged
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
191
Paul Zarzyski
Zarzyski Stars in Football Zombie Apocalypse Now
Smelling of mothballs and mildewed youth, of gridiron glory days buried alive. I -
football, zombie, midget
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
194
Paul Zarzyski
Turkey Buzzards Circling Nirvana
I'm fed up burying all my dead friends never quite friend enough to haul my carcass off.
death, funeral, ashes
Steering With My Knees
Paul Zarzyski
FOLK COLL 11 Z-5
196
Paul Zarzyski
Short-But-Not-Too-Sweet Eulogy To And From, The Rockin' Double Z Barwhiskey Bizarzyski Czarzyski
Worshiped words Spurred broncs Incited friends Indicated God/
eulogy, ranch, drink
Call of the Cow Country
Harry Webb
FOLK COLL 11 W-40
Harry Webb
True Stories by bronc buster Harry Webb: Cowboys, Indians, Outlaws, Will James, Butch Cassidy, Buffalo Bill, Mustang, Coyotes
n/a
short stories, essays, true stories
Prints of the West
Ron Tyler
FOLK COLL 11 T-20
n/a
Various
Prints of the West
n/a
prints, paintings, history
The Devil and Call McCabe
Thomas Saunders
FOLK COLL 11 S-73
n/a
Thomas Saunders
The Tale of the Cowman's Corns
They tell a tale in the cow country Of the days when the range was wide and free, Before men reckoned the consequence Of a five-bar gate or a barbed-wire fence,
prose, novel, cowboy
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
3
Sean Sexton
Environmental Audit
Last of all she asked: What are the bare places in the aerial... all over this block - Did you bury toxic waste out there?
environment, audit, bulls
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
xvi
Sean Sexton
The Weeks of Calves
Autumn has a fragrance the cold imparts, perhaps, but today the cold has temporarily left, and that fragrance is even more noticeable.
autumn, calves, cattle drive
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
4
Sean Sexton
The Prosperous Year
Today with the cattle grows the cash, consigning debt to an easier portion, resting minds, filling pockets, greening grass, like morning rain fresh off the ocean.
prosperity, money, greed
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
5
Sean Sexton
The Jubilant Calf
The just-born jubilant calf, no sooner on his feet and he's bucking, cavorting, exalting, in this world.
newborn, calf, jump
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
6
Sean Sexton
How Vultures Eat a Cow
The first work is invisible, tongue swiped from its shelf in tasty pecks, the skyward eye plucked from its hollow
death, vulture, carrion
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
7
Sean Sexton
Moon Hens
She put down and opened a white plastic crate, released five pale, disheveled hens from the research farm, where they'd hung in cagesv like moons in a twilight barn, high above the ground.
eggs, chicken, feed
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
9
Sean Sexton
Lowly Estate
The floor of the pens has drowned in its burden of sky and become a tree-faced mirror for a season, limned in posts, boards, leaves and vines, set into shadowy shine.
farm, pasture, mud
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
10
Sean Sexton
Loss
It is sad to speak a poem of vanished things;
autumn, animals, death
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
11
Sean Sexton
The Unseasonable Year
Becalmed in the loose days, calmer in storm, though winter failed to claim the fields.
storm, spring, seasons
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
12
Sean Sexton
Physiology of Bovine Reproduction
Actions of acids afford amniotic adherence to appendages building a body of blastocysts, broached between bladder and brisket, causing chromosomic communication, capacitation, and contractions,
anatomy, life science, reproduction
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
13
Sean Sexton
Calving Season in the Tropics
As autumn days upend our senses, the tropics wield their reckonings, and heaven's breath brings summer's end and harm of winter's beckoning.
rain, storm, weather
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
14
Sean Sexton
Things Found Caught in the Fence
Innumerable wisps of cow's tails: silken, black, tawny, and brown.
plants, prey, fibers
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
15
Sean Sexton
Resurrection Fern
In firewood piled two seasons deep, tendrils emerge like Christ, transcending death upon a tree.
trees, forest, death