Why Women’s Knees are So Pretty
In the old days the Blaans believed that a man could not be told apart from a woman. The word […]
Filipino Poets, Poems, Tributes
Tributes
Cowboy Poetry, Poems, Tributes
Sheep Kill
for Dave David, for years lost in drug-fogs, opens the throats of stunned lambs. After half
Cowboy Poetry, Poems, Tributes
Authority
When Norman sent me for the cows I couldn’t bring them in. They stood As if they had all day
Cowboy Poetry, Poems, Tributes
A Plastic Dashboard Jesus? You Kiddin’?
Red Shuttleworth A PLASTIC DASHBOARD JESUS? YOU KIDDIN’? I’d rather worm dogs for a living, she said, drunk as ten
Cowboy Poetry, Poems, Tributes
Showdown
Sunday afternoon dust devils chase my horse down a trail Lined with cattle carcasses and sun-bleached bones. Rattlers and scorpions
Cowboy Poetry, Poems, Tributes
Spring in the Country
And sheep are led to the shearing shed. They tumble out, shivering, bleeding. What good to tell them, “look toward