FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Composer
Call #
Pages
Author
Poem Title
First Lines
Keywords
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
29
Gerald Hausman
Mariah and the Owls
Out at twilight, listening for owls.
owl, owls, bird, birds, sounds, night, child, daughter, father
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
33
Gerald Hausman
Walking by the River
Our wives stayed by the fire.
aging, wrinkles, bird, friendship
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
34
Gerald Hausman
Rug of Dawn
Dawn on a mesa top.
morning, Navajo loom, weaving, Coyote, trickster, memories
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
35
Gerald Hausman
Cleaning Out the Old Man's Well
There is always the fear.
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
36
Gerald Hausman
Umpachene Falls
Once when Umpachene was a secret.
river, cave, swimming, glass, litter, coke bottle
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
37
Gerald Hausman
On the Banks of the Konkapot
She uncurled herself.
clothing, female
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
38
Gerald Hausman
Bone Sermon
Take a bone.
bones, shell, shells
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
39
Gerald Hausman
Marish's Night Mare
Comet tails.
nightmare, child
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
40
Gerald Hausman
Loom
Hiding myself.
leaf, weaving, weave, nature
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
41
Gerald Hausman
Burls
Maple burls like rounded knots of rope.
trees
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
42
Gerald Hausman
A Question of Pears
Why did I want to write.
writing, neighbors
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
43
Gerald Hausman
Watergods at Twelve Thousand Feet
Water craters.
rain, lake
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
44
Gerald Hausman
Balsam and Fern
Dusk, and the cat comes in.
pet, bed, sleep
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
45
Gerald Hausman
Aspen Meadows
We drink where the deer drink.
water, reflection
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
46
Gerald Hausman
Rain in August
A fireplace log.
fire, autumn
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
47
Gerald Hausman
Cherry Hill
At tamarack swamp.
eel, water, well
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
48
Gerald Hausman
Tracks
I walk on blue river ice.
odor, scent, track, human, humans
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
49
Gerald Hausman
Clearing Trails
Rain stopped us, we three.
waiting, horses, horse, weather
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
50
Gerald Hausman
Early Spring on Frog Creek Boulder
White wine and bonfire sparks.
celebration
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
51
Gerald Hausman
Spring Barnyard Poem
Two horses nibble snow.
spring, horse
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
52
Gerald Hausman
Hanna Hawkins
Cowbones shut in a root cellar.
bones, change, past, time
Night Herding Song
FC 11 H-10
53
Gerald Hausman
Appaloosa Hail Storm
Hauled hay bales all afternoon.
haying, hail, work, weather, storm
Singing Rawhide
FC 11 H-11
13
Harold Brainerd Hersey
The Lavender Cowboy
He was only a lavender cowboy.
hero, chest hair
Singing Rawhide
FC 11 H-11
17
Harold Brainerd Hersey
They Played Poker in Them Days
Two poker fiends wuz playin'.
gambling, newcomer, innocence, greenhorn, cards, money, kid
Singing Rawhide
FC 11 H-11
55
Harold Brainerd Hersey
The Song of a Spanish Guitar
Strum te tum, ting a ling, plunk a plunk, zing!
woman, female, love triangle, knife, dagger, cut, stabbed, scar, jealousy