FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
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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
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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
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
16
Sean Sexton
Landings
The world visits the pasture on occasion with escaped brightly-colored heliums importing messages of birthday or anniversary, dragged a shred of party ribbon like a tattered umbilical from the navel of a week-old calf.
crash, flight, plants
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
17
Sean Sexton
Coyote's Work
All that remains is the tiny skull, spine, pelvis, and ribs, cartoon of life,
bones, coyote, calf
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
18
Sean Sexton
Weaning Song
At week's end, seven sun-filled mornings since that day's passing, hot, bright, clear, windless as an eye, when killing anything would be easy, I heard their voices ringing blue from dark to day's full light.
weaning, calving, baby
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
20
Sean Sexton
Planting Aeschynomene Seed
It pours from a muslin sack like sunlight through a cracked window shade, fifty pounds to a metal washtub, old as your footsteps.
milk, flour, tractor
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
21
Sean Sexton
Nest Eggs
Yesterday morning I prepared the roe of the mackerel queen my son caught on a Saturday morning off-shore excursion.
eggs, birds, chicks
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
25
Sean Sexton
Query
Will this one day end - working on a ranch, living close to nature -
death, ranch
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
26
Sean Sexton
Boy or Girl
"It don't matter which you get -" Herman Thomas said, closing the gate of his loaded truck to market;
gender, birth, market
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
27
Sean Sexton
On the Peter Pan Bus Between Boston and New York
Love and happiness make for strange accommodations, yet amazing to me this morning is the attractive,
bus, bathroom, beauty
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
29
Sean Sexton
Elko At the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Mona's Divas - open noon to four a.m., Sue's Fantasy Club, Number One Geisha, and Inez's Dancin' and Diddlin', thrive on streets behind the Stockman's Casino,
club, casino, coffee
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
30
Sean Sexton
Meditation Upon Dutch Boy General Purpose Paste Flux
See the plastic screw-capped container of Dutch Boy General Purpose Paste Flux, left by the man summoned to tear out a wall of our bathroom closet, replace and solder pipes buried deep inside, now exposed after twenty-five years.
paste, packaging, images
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
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Sean Sexton
Sunrise, Moonset at 30,000 Ft. For Linda Hussa
The envelope of air that contains us, turns upon a blue, soft sphere evidenced by rising sun,
sunrise, moonset, mountain
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
32
Sean Sexton
Disparate
The girls in the museum cafeteria titter in pleasant gossip, coiffed and garbed alike in gold, cashmere, and silk.
museum, art, society