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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sean Sexton
Query
Will this one day end - working on a ranch, living close to nature -
death, ranch
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Sean Sexton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
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Sean Sexton
The Last Hard Parts
Someday your last hard parts will be discovered scratched off a road, dug out of a ditch, held in rock or scattered by the sea:
bones, fossils, death
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
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Sean Sexton
Above Portland
Each moment redraws the mountain above the city from the Rose Test Garden, on these seldom clear hours of evening, Mt. Hood, omniscient, glimmering.
portland, garden, flowers
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
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Sean Sexton
I Thought
I thought the floor was wet when I stepped on a penny,
penny, beliefs, speech
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
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Sean Sexton
Sketches of Georgia, 70 MPH
The sky at twilight, well past the border, is pink as a pink bedsheet. There's a change in feeling at the state line, difference in the body politic, or perhaps history's grain running a different direction.
road, fruit stand, history
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
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Sean Sexton
Over the West in Flight
Nothing below is the color of my life:
airplane, mountains, water
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
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Sean Sexton
From a Cafe Window - 8 AM, Washington, DC
Pedestrians hasten by outside. An Amerasian woman rounds the corner in her SAAB, driving her brief automotive history around town.
cafe, business, foot traffic
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
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Sean Sexton
11:30 PM [After Listening to Brahms's 1st Piano Concerto at the Neighbor's]
At the edge of tomorrow, I share the couch on the terrace beneath the porch light with our old smelly dog, Annie, curled, breathing heavily in a kind of peace.
cigar, nostalgia, dog
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
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Sean Sexton
Sunday Evening Lament
While we were at church this morning, our neighbor gathered his herd and hauled calves to the stockyard for tomorrow's market. His cows are crying tonight,
church, herd, crying
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
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Sean Sexton
Out-of-Season Calves
appear one day, revealing things gone wrong in the irretrievable past.
calve, birth, conditions
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
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Sean Sexton
Early Hour
In this hour the light barely holds the sky and enters our room.
morning, mist, sky
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
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Sean Sexton
The Barren Heifer
Today is the day, the last crimson dawn for the barren heifer, a truck to the abattoir, soon to arrive.
heifer, barren, meat
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
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Sean Sexton
Mud
There's a story of the cocksure dairyman who formed and poured his parlor, stoop, and alleys with concrete, swearing then, "I'm finished with mud for good!"
mud, rain, dust
May Darkness Restore
Sean Sexton
FOLK COLL 11 S-74
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Sean Sexton
The Empty Tomb
What might have been a fallen star, glittering in the distance became the dreaded sight - a heifer in trouble, calving.
calf, blood, milk