FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
43
Edwin Ford Piper
Three Per Cent a Month
Soft April sunshine sweetens all the world
percent, mortgage, wheat, expenses, costs
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
45
Edwin Ford Piper
Meanwhile
The August sun had still two hours of sky, when the white flag a-flutter from the house signaled him in to find
sickness, death
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
49
Edwin Ford Piper
The Church
The blinding July sun at ten o'clock, Glares on the white walls of the little church
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
55
Edwin Ford Piper
Have You an Eye
Have you an eye for the trails, the trails, the old mark and the new?
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
57
Edwin Ford Piper
The Ridge Farm
The ridge is open to all moody weather:
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
62
Edwin Ford Piper
In the Canyon
This is her diary. Come with me to view the canyon
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
74
Edwin Ford Piper
Road and Path
O, road and path, and path and road
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
76
Edwin Ford Piper
The Neighborhood
Once more 'twas spring! The meadow-lark gave note
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
80
Edwin Ford Piper
The Banded
Who are the banded? Gather from the four broadwinds one hundred strangers varying
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
82
Edwin Ford Piper
Nathan Briggs
Through two small windows sunshine slanted in, To die upon the splintery schoolroom floor
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
85
Edwin Ford Piper
Mister Wiggins
Bill Dwiggins had been Billy thirty years
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
90
Edwin Ford Piper
The Claim-Jumper
Because it's cut in the canyon bank, you look
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
100
Edwin Ford Piper
Joe Taylor
September afternoon. The farmers' teams
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
104
Edwin Ford Piper
The Party
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
111
Edwin Ford Piper
The Key
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
113
Edwin Ford Piper
The Driver
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
11
M.H. Porter
Hey Elko!
Hey Elko!, Nestled there, Beside the Humboldt, Sitting where the river flows to me
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
12
M.H. Porter
A Life of Sharing
Home from his day's ride, Smelling of sage brush and outside as always
husband, spouse,
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
14
M.H. Porter
Bristle Cone Pine
High on the Mountain adding rings of age, From your place above the lowly sage
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
15
M.H. Porter
Maggie
Maggie, we've never met--a century separates our time, Yours a different Nevada from mine
history
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
16
M.H. Porter
Rivers and Railroads
Rivers and railroads, lines that cross space and time
transportation, dreams
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
17
M.H. Porter
Chinese Laborers of the Central Pacific
First the road bed then the rail, step by step each mile a tale
railroad, train
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
18
M.H. Porter
Herman was a Hell of a Hand
When the bunkhouse talk went to dogs good with stock
dog
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
20
M.H. Porter
Capriola's Helpful Clerk
The customer approached the clerk, He said
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
21
M.H. Porter
Tall Tale on a Hot Day
I remember a day in August heat, road dust made puffs when you moved your feet
tall tale