If You Give a Government Trapper a Roadkill Armadillo
If you give a government trapper /
a roadkill armadillo, /
he’s likely to take it home.
Cowboy Poetry
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Cottonwood Blues
Somewhere along Highway 395 In the pasture over west— when cottonwood shimmer fills the air the lizard in me wants
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Duende
Shot with a 7mm—mistaken for a bear— he nearly bled to death, slamming through potholes in the hunter’s front seat
The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs
It takes a primal prairie
need, a kinship with Old Man Winter, with Napi
hunkering in sunless gulches, a longing
for short Fourth of July parades, the bestkept-
secret-café with a waitress
who commutes 50 miles from Malta—
big city with its 5 p.m. rush
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Steers in Summer, Lowing
Against a backdrop of blue heaven and mesas hot as blacksmiths’ anvils, still stunned by the musk of men who
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from “Wolfe” by Donald Mace Williams
Donald Mace Williams from WOLFE Tha com of more under misthleoþum Grendel gongan, Godes yrre bær. —Beowulf When