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Subject: PRAIRIES - TEXAS Matches Found: 72 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER A YEAR IN KOREA, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old uncle oscar hated cold, hauled Last Line: The bomb, good summers short, %the winters hard, more bitter every year Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953; Prairies - Texas AFTER EDEN, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I like snakes my own way, underfoot Last Line: Where the loading corral is waiting %and a truck backed tight against the ramp Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas AFTER THE FLIGHT HOME FROM SAIGON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the rage for order on the plains Last Line: In bad weather, not far from my door, %each day laid out forhim, easy to understand Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Fence Subject(s): Prairies - Texas AT THE FOOTBALL STADIUM, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, beyond the flooding Last Line: Beneath the lenses and his fists %he mouthed an o Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas BARN ON THE FARM WE'RE BUYING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We slide the barn door wide and cough. Dust swarms Last Line: We're growing used to, our other odor. %the earth we're beginning to call home Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas BLACK WINGS WHEELING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen her lift a calf Last Line: Lizards with slit mouths, lost dogs, %does with wild eyes and rapidly beating hearts Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas BLUE SKIES, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the crisp reeds Last Line: Or moving, the wind knowing, %the wind always delivering Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas BRIEF, FAMILIAR STORY OF WINTER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The barn is telling the story of winter Last Line: And listening, like good children. %they believe it's only a story Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas BUILDING ON HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chopping down dense mesquites Last Line: Holding their rattles %tie up and silent Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas CATTLE IN RAIN, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No cow knows what to do in rain Last Line: In the pasture, they will go on %chewing this green haze forever Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas CAUGHT IN A STORM ON HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under an oak, I wait out a hailstorm Last Line: And eats, believing my lie that we're safe, %that nothing can hurt us Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas CHILDREN'S HOUR, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let's try spinning autumn into gold Last Line: Brighter than the sun going down, %all of us shielding our eyes and silent Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas DEDUCTIONS FROM THE LAWS OF MOTION, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The countryside is quiet, except that contrail Last Line: To amaze us all, always on he go %over miles of sand under a spinning moon Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas DEMONS IN TEXAS, by STEPHEN LOWE Poem Source First Line: Start the truck,' was the call Last Line: And the early morning hours Subject(s): Fields; Prairies - Texas DIGS IN ESCONDIDO CANYON (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night the brazos froze, the trucks are here Last Line: A harmless drudge who means nobody harm, who only means %to dig for bones he might have loved Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas DRIVING HOME TO THE PLAINS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now it begins, the endless golds Last Line: For bottles, blankets, nothing ever more %but sky, ten million stars Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas DRYING UP, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anytime from march through fall Last Line: Tightens the nuts and in march starts them up %again. He waits. The wells suck deep. The water flows Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas EYES IN GRANDFATHER'S OILS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wolves again. Grandfather roamed these fields Last Line: Their eyes staring through the canvas %glazed by oils and starving Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas FATHER'S REVOLVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I carried it cold, with pearl handles Last Line: Over the pasture, coaxing rabbits to hop boldly %in the open, daring rattlesnakes to coil Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas FEEDING THE WINTER CATTLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We lifted bales and dropped them heavy Last Line: And lifting, heaving it over like ballast %between the dogs,like another christmas visit %dropping a Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas FIDDLES AND STEEL GUITARS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even a stuttering owl knows music Last Line: And a mad bull backing off and pawing, %about to tear the barn down Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas FINDING MY FATHER'S HANDS IN MID-LIFE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What enters my hand is stiff Last Line: Of his thumb something we closed on, %muscle we loved Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas GETTING IT DONE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've watched amazed the same burnt sienna Last Line: Where we live, only brown earth and sky %and in between, all that matters Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas GOAT RANCHING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I could let go and live with the goats Last Line: Whetting their horns like sabers %on barbed wires Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas GOATS OF SUMMER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The clink of steel diggers rammed Last Line: Waiting to be strung, a dozen more dry holes %before there'll be some order to this dirt Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas GROWING UP NEAR ESCONDIDO CANYON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With bristles and picks Last Line: Cow bones or coyotes' %we believed were human, %turning them over and over Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas HAWKS IN A BITTER BLIZZARD, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hard work alone can't drive blue northers off Last Line: Nothing in oak or juniper they carve %ever as wild and staring as those eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas HONEY MAN, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like a bear, uncle murphy could line bees Last Line: Yellow as butter, dark bittersweet mesquite, %white lightning, sweet copper combs Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas LEAVING THE MIDDLE YEARS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Slow blues beckon us to move Last Line: Sentimental enough for lovers bound %by more than rings and wrinkles %deeper than any scars Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas LIVING ON OPEN PLAINS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We thought we knew these flat Last Line: Where are the coyotes, now? %where is the sand running to? Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas LOSING A BOAT ON THE BRAZOS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Downriver rocks were rapids. Believe me Last Line: Like old bones mired in mud we've proved %can rise and walk again Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas MAKING BOOK ON THE AQUIFER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When it doesn't rain, we water Last Line: Wherever others on the road a mile away %are going, we are here Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas MARRIAGE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The neighbors' dogs have howled at the last Last Line: Animals trot by outside our window %for the blesing of names Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Prairies - Texas MEMENTO MORI, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen her pose a skull Last Line: Wearing a skull, painted in clouds %and ground we could stand on Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas MERCY AND THE BRAZOS RIVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poet's Biography First Line: My great-greats came to hardscrabble plains Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Prairies - Texas; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Plains - Texas MERCY AND THE BRAZOS RIVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My great-greats came to hardscrabble plains Last Line: Caliche canyon and haul back barrels of water %from the river of the arms of god Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Prairies - Texas; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MOUNDS AT ESTACACO, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hawks alone could have loved it Last Line: Cows and romping calves in all directions, %bumblebees roaming the miles of cactus Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas MY BROTHER IN SUMMER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here on the texas plains he wakes at five Last Line: Leaves at work, sighing oxygen, %pushing itself toward its own white death Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas NIGHT MISSIONS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight will be like any other night Last Line: Blue wings climbing somebody's dreams, %tuned blades humminglike mercy Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas NIGHT OF RATTLESNAKE CHILI, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only the lure of a rattler kept us Last Line: Was cold and sweeter than most %and steel spoons melted in our mouths Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas OLD MEN FISHING AT BROWNWOOD, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spitting tobacco juice on hooks Last Line: Pneumonia or stroke, the hiss of fangs %nearby on a shimmer of water Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas ON A SCREENED PORCH IN THE COUNTRY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We scan the sky for jets whose radios and dead Last Line: We leave the porch light off and rock in darkness, %watchingwild eyes flashing in the fields Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Living On Hardscrabbl Subject(s): Prairies - Texas ONE THAT GOT AWAY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We took turns eating ammonia dirt Last Line: Four hooves in the air forevr, %his mane like flames of gold Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas PLAINS AND THE ART OF WRITING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A prairie lays its mystery face up Last Line: Long muscles flowing %over the old, familiar sand Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas PRAISE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the threat of summer, trees Last Line: That never go anywhere all winter, %and somehow survive Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas RIG-SITTING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the derrick, I twist this wrench tight Last Line: How many times a bit goes around %before breaking Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas ROCK SOFTLY IN MY ARMS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forget the bells, the call to order Last Line: In my arms and hold me, girl, %this night won't last for long Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas SEINING FOR CARP, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The carp keep coming back, no matter how many Last Line: Carp wait in the open, catchable, all the carp %in our lives easy to seine and toss to the cats Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas SETTLING THE PLAINS (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poet's Biography First Line: For here and for the afterlife Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Religion; Plains - Texas; Theology SETTLING THE PLAINS (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For here and for the afterlife Last Line: Would live, if it was god's will %and the wind blew Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Religion SKETCHES OF THE TEXAS PRAIRIE: 'APRIL RAINS', by GEORGE BOND Poem Text First Line: There is magic in the april rains Last Line: Of vivid texas flowers. Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Rain; Plains - Texas STARTING A PASTURE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This far out in the country no one is talking Last Line: Honking, sticking their heads out the windows and laughing. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Plains - Texas STARTING A PASTURE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flooded with sun, this ranch looks like a rice field Last Line: Imported from wyoming, a flock of ostriches which came %lastnight by train, wide eyed and panting Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas SUNDOWN, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's not alone, the old bull Last Line: The weight of the farm %and the long day disappear Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas TAKING EACH DEEP BREATH, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, the long arm of thunder, reaches us Last Line: Gliding under the crack of thunder, %taking each deep breath to let it go Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas THINGS ABOUT TO DISAPPAR, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pronghorns the size of fawns Last Line: Theynvr pause, before our eyes they fade %like a legend and run for mils Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas TIED UP UNDER TREES, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not when the moccasin sidles Last Line: The wide white border of his mouth, %and inside, all tongue and fangs Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas TORNADO CHASING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night the cb crackles Last Line: In flashes. They gasp like me %and breathe the name of god Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Tornadoes TRAINS, UP CLOSE AND FAR AWAY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hearing a faint train whistle Last Line: Wail long after any human hand %could have pulled the cord Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas UNCLE BUBBA AND THE BUZZARDS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old uncle bubba wore scuffed leather Last Line: Sweaty glove rubbing his horse, %his stiff boots thudding in the straw Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas UNCLE ROLLIE AND THE LAWS OF WATER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The windmill pumps an old, slow action up and down Last Line: Water trickling through a rusted pipe, faithful %after all these years, the dry, split blades still Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WEEDS BARN OWLS, ALL NIBBLING GOATS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We chop these weeds with hoes filed shiny Last Line: Sometimes an owl blinded by sunlight, %weaving from barn to barn Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WHATEVER GROUND WE WALK ON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We walk until the moon rises Last Line: Yet here we are, not even touching %and the moon is up, and rushing Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WHATEVER IT TAKES (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In pakistan, three elephants go around Last Line: To prop it, stomps down around this post %to wedge it tight between two perfect stones Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WHEN CHILDREN THINK YOU CAN DO ANYTHING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Living on hardscrabble, a man is less Last Line: And comb my hair and shave, roll down my sleeves %and go inside as if nothing's happened Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WHERE THE TREES GO, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In time they all rise up Last Line: The other trees look down %and find them missing Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WILDCATTING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the cramped cab of a pickup, we bump down Last Line: Drunk on the constant spinning, each twist %of the bit like love, trying it over and over Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WIND AND HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's wind, not rain, dry cattle need Last Line: And muzzle deep in stock tanks %filled and overflowing Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WINDMILLS NEAR ESCONDIDO, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Relax, it's friday, nothing to do Last Line: How many gallons spin on a windmill, %how many rain clouds wishs build Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WINTER BEFORE THE WAR (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One winter, sledgehammers couldn't break ice Last Line: And drank and cursed our luck, and tried to ignore %stiff wind and shingles banging overhead Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WITCHING ON HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farming on dry land, a man keeps his witch-stick Last Line: Brought in elsewhere in texas. With my own eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Witching Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Prairies - Texas; Water; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains - Texas WOMAN ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My wife is not afraid of dark Last Line: So if our children wake and cry %for light, there will be light Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas |
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