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22138 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 80 Milton Parker Looney (1994) "Light 'em if you have 'em": the fighting Nora's Navy Cross fire controlman is dying, lung cancer, hot as the Christmas lights as his niece's house. In delirium he is back on the Northampton, just before midnight near Guadalcanal.
22139 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 81 George Sibley Hartman Rocks I lift my eyes to these hills To see beyond gods and folly; I come out among these rocks To take peace in their absence of plan. In this thrust and boil of stone, Long cooled but still settling out.
22140 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 82 Hawks and Haying at Clarke's Ranch They seemed a team, symbiotic: The silent man on the John Deere, The hawk floating along behind, Waiting for something to dart out Of the over-rolled row of winnowed hay.
22141 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 83 On Driving Past the One Hundred Thousandth Roadkill These animals sleeping on the shoulder Will one day all wake up and take back the roads. The fish flushed in turbines will run Up the rubble of dams coming down; New feathers will grow through crude gunk.
22142 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 84 West Elks Haiku the old deacon spruce stood grim but its new greens laughed as they slapped me wet that clawed-up quakie's so old even her bear is some fifty yards dead.
22143 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 85 Larry D. Thomas Blue Norther When the wind barreled in, even the mesquite murmured, their roots of tempered steel creaking, clawing deep in the merciless Texas earth, their wood ornery enough.
22144 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 86 Forgotten Horseshoe In far West Texas, foundationed on a flank of the Guadalupe Mountains, just the weathered wooden shell of Williams Ranch.
22145 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 87 Near Pecos The land brown with drought, branches of mesquite twist to the breaking point. Fresh brands fester, itching the hides of Herefords whose bawling singes hairs.
22146 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 88 Night Goat The cold rock faces of sheer cliffs shudder, echoing the black arpeggios of bleating. He swaggers up the steep canyon as if he owns the place.
22147 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 89 Sierra Diablo Near Van Horn, Texas, in the desert, even the living is far more skeleton than flesh; a landscape of yucca flanking rib cages sandblasted, sun-bleached, immaculate.
22148 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 90 Mark Todd Mountain Roads The roads I like best struggle to bridge two points strung out rubber thin, like a hat ear to ear, its band tearing free from a warped-fitting brim.
22149 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 91 Like Sleep, But Brittle Like sleep, But brittle, a film that crackles from each toss to turn and then returns to the starch of wakefulness.
22150 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 92 Runaway well I'd unhooked the trailer just like I'd done a hundred times I chocked the wheels I set the block and cranked it off the hitch.
22151 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 94 Lori Van Pelt Snowy Range Moon In dusks's chiaroscuro while sunset drains the day's warmth we sip burgundy from crystal. Clad in down coats and wool socks, we wobble in lawn chairs on cushiony grass and watch constellations uncloack.
22152 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 95 Tardy Visitor to the Graveyard Two cocoons dangle from one budded branch of the Russian olive. Little lanterns yet unlit waiting for luminescence kindled by interior instinct.
22153 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 96 The Deaf Lady Sings Her garden delights the eyes-- cosmos, roses, irises swinging in the brisk rhythmic wind lilacs, poppies, tulips tapping white wooden picket fence.
22154 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 97 Dale L. Walker Eldorado Rough and Ready, serenely isolated among pines and oaks and blackberry brambles, the archetypal placer camp where the mind still sees weary men stirring from their bedrolls at daybreak.
22155 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 99 Richard S. Wheeler After I'm Gone Will she spread my ashes down in the park, the Lamar Valley, a place I loved where buffalo graze beneath a cloud-patched sky and wolves sun on distant ridges?
22156 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 100 Paul Zarzyski Cowboy Poet Barnstormer Eighty-nine copies of your latest alliterative lariati title crammed, sans remaining space for one anorectic, iambic molecule of mold or mildew, in the Samsonite Genuine Split Cowhide suitcase you wheedled out of your widow neighbor.
22157 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 102 Flowering Their rump hairs puffed, chrysanthemum antelope blossoms from beds into morning hoarfrost, the rancid scent of carnivore boring through the frozen air of their world so perfectly still.
22158 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 104 Photo Finish Because a horse cannot see its own nose, the bell mare stares at herself mesmerized in the mirroried glass vet clinic door--fixates so firmly she's distracted from her chronic pain.
22159 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 106 Reminders Cocktail-hour autumn sun accents every cat-- scratched inch of short stroke, each centimeter-deep groove she racked into Ranch Oak kitched table leg, a stick of asiago chesse or frozen butter.
22160 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 108 The Day Beelzebub Gave His Jezebel a Hotfoot It was 53 below in Butte, where they were marooned, after the hell-hole it took them an eternity to drive up through froze over, their fire-engine red Firebird vapor-locking to a frigid halt.
22161 Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson FC 11 W-30 112 Time Travel Gravel roads into a black hole canopy of hardwood forest were all the secrets of the cosmos she and I craved in those days before compact cars. We made aerobic love in the king-size back seat of a '56 Buick Roadmaster.
22163 Antlers in the Treetops or Who Goosed the Moose FC 11 W-38 1 Donald L. Welter Have you never? If you've ever rode a ridge-top, as the sun sets in the west.