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Many Voices Press Flathead Valley Community College Table of Contents New Poets of the American West -An anthology of poets from eleven Western states- Uni Gottingen 230 r to 2, ft 341 Many Voices Press Flathead Valley Community College Table of Contents Editor's Note: "In This Spirit I Gathered These Poems" by Lowell Jaeger 1 Introduction: "Many Voices, Many Wests" by Brady Harrison 7 Arizona Dick Bakken Going into Moonlight 20 Sherwin Bitsui (excerpted from: Flood Song) 21 Jefferson Carter Match Race 22 A Centaur 22 Virgil Chabre Wyoming Miners 23 David Chorlton Everyday Opera 24 Jim Harrison Blue 25 Rene Char II 25 Love 26 Larson's Holstein Bull 26 Cynthia Hogue That Wild Chance of Living (2001) 27 Will Inman The Bones that Humans Lacked 28 given names 28 mesquite mother territory 29 To Catch the Truth 29 James Jay Mars Hill 30 Hershman John Two Parts Hydrogen, One Part Oxygen 31 Jane Miller xii (excerpted from Midnights) 32 Jim Natal The Half-Life of Memory 33 Sean Nevin The Carpenter Bee 34 Wildfire Triptych 34 Losing Solomon 37 Simon J. Ortiz just phoenix 38 Michael Rattee Spring 39 II David Ray The Sleepers 40 Illegals 41 Arizona Satori 41 The White Buffalo 42 Judy Ray These Days 43 Alberto Rfos Border Lines (Lineas Fronterizas) 44 Rabbits and Fire 45 Refugio's Hair 46 Mi Biblioteca Publica (My Public Library) 47 Rebecca Seiferle Ghost Riders in the Sky 48 Apache Tears 49 Leslie Marmon Silko How to Hunt Buffalo 50 Laurel Speer Buffalo Stones 52 Candyman 52 Luci Tapahonso After Noon in Yooto 53 Miles Waggener Direction 54 Nicole Walker Canister and Turkey Vulture 55 California Kim Addonizio Yes 58 In the Evening, 59 William Archila Blinking Lights 60 Ellen Bass GateC22 61 Women Walking 62 Ode to Dr. Ladd's Black Slit Skirt 64 Christopher Buckley OffShore 65 Wine 66 Maxine Chernoff Oracular 67 Garden/Book 67 Marilyn Chin Formosan Elegy 68 After Enlightenment, There Is Yam Gruel 69 Craig Cotter 5/23/96 70 III Carol V. Davis Entering the Forest 72 Lucille Lang Day 710Ashbury, 1967 73 James DenBoer Three Men on Isle Royale 74 Red Wine 74 John Dofflemyer I Owe My Soul 75 Teresa Chuc Dowell Names 76 John Olivares Espinoza Aching Knees in Palm Springs 77 CBFollett Early Morning, Yosemite 78 Thea Gavin Mystery Rider 79 Dana Gioia The Apple Orchard 80 Rafael Jesus Gonzalez To an Old Woman (A una anciana) 81-82 Corrinne Clegg Hales Out of This Place 83 Covenant: Atomic Energy Commission, 1950s 85 Allison Adelle Hedge Coke Street Confetti 88 Jane Hirshfield First Light Edging Cirrus 89 French Horn 89 The Dark Hour 90 Sonoma Fire 90 Green-Striped Melons 90 Maggie Jaffe Sign of the Times 91 Ilya Kaminsky We Lived Happily During the War 92 To Live 92 George Keithley The Red Bluff Rodeo 93 Steve Kowit Kiss 95 Karen An-hwei Lee White Gardenias and a Letter 96 Philip Levine In the White City 97 1934 98 Samuel Maio South Central L. A. 100 Pleasanton Villanelle 101 IV Clarence Major Photograph of a Gathering of People Waving 102 The Doll Believers 103 Michael McGriff Seasons Between Night and Day 104 Buying and Selling 105 Foxgloves 106 Sandra McPherson Grouse 107 Phlox Diffusa 108 Carol Muske-Dukes Condolence Note: Los Angeles 109 Melinda Palacio El South-Central Cucuy 110 Wendy Rose Grandmother Rattler 111 Kay Ryan Cirque 113 Dew 113 Dixie Salazar Altar for the Altar-less 114 Jeffrey Schultz J. Learns the Difference Between Poverty and Having No Money 115 Kim Shuck OffWestish 116 Maurya Simon Waste Management 117 Keeping Track 118 Gary Soto Romance at the River Bend Called Three Rocks 119 Anniversary Poem 119 Short Lives 120 David St. John Los Angeles, 1954 121 Susan Terris Sheepeater Cave 123 Undercut 123 Amber Flora Thomas Swarm 124 Lynne Thompson Soar 125 Joyce E. Young Lizard 126 Al Young Dawn at Oakland Airport 127 American Time 128 Process 129 V Colorado Peter Anderson Night Drive on 1-80 132 True News from a Small Town Beat 132 Aaron Anstett Indeed I Was 133 Prayer Against Dying on Camera 133 Dan Beachy-Quick Walking Through the Room 134 James Gleason Bishop Beyond the Black Iron Bars 135 Kathy Conde Seekers 136 Climbing after a Fall 136 Mary Crow Saturday Matinee 137 Fault-Finding 138 Marfa, Texas 138 Art Goodtimes Skinning the Elk 139 Noah Eli Gordon All Orange Blossoms Have to Do Is Act Naturally 140 Jane Hilberry The Moment 141 Joseph Hutchison Black River 142 Sleepwalkers 143 From a Swaying Hammock 143 Mark Irwin Rider 144 . Shoes 144 Robert King About Eight Minutes of Light in the Meadow 145 Now 145 Marilyn Krysl Love, That Hugeness 146 Sacrament: Central Bus Station 147 Song of Some Ruins 148 Sheryl Luna Las Alas 149 David Mason Fog Horns 150 Home Care 151 Maria Melendez Recipe for When You're Tired of Feeding Your Family Life Cereal from a Box 152 Backcountry, Emigrant Gap 152 Randy Phillis What's a Boy to Do? 153 VI Pattiann Rogers In the Silence Following 154 For the Moral of the Story 15 5 William Pitt Root Crossing The Rez 156 Craft 157 Reg Saner Alpine Forget-Me-Nots 158 North of Wupatki 158 Rawdon Tomlinson Flying with Father 159 Deep Red 160 Bill Tremblay Where the Ashes Go 161 Raptors at Terry Lake 161 Pamela Uschuk Finding Peaches in the Desert 162 Loving the Outlaw 163 Idaho Margaret Aho to be flanking the petiole 166 Gary Gildner Cleaning a Rainbow 167 Ella 168 Spring Evenings 169 Larry N. Gwartney Whistle Pigs 170 William Johnson New Year's Eve 171 Ron McFarland Fishing in Last Light 172 The Bird Hunter's Art 173 Tiffany Midge After Viewing the Holocaust Museum's Room of Shoes and a Gallery of Plains Indians Moccasins: Washington, D.C. 174 Diane Raptosh Husband 176 Wendy Simpson At the Truckstop Cafe 177 Georgia Tiffany Trouble with Kindness 178 Robert Wrigley The Other World 179 Progress 180 Misunderstanding 181 Nadine York Practical Math 182 VII Montana Sandra Alcosser Spittle Bug 184 Glory Monster 185 Sunk Pa (Minerva Allen) My Indian Relatives (Nakoda Meda Goo Yeah Be) 186-187 Zu Yea E Nanah (You Went to War) 188 Circle of Time 189 Beautiful Existence 189 Judy Blunt When Cowboys Cry 190 Showdown 191 Heather Cahoon Rescue at L8000 Road 192 Ed Chaberek "Every Bit Helps" 193 Victor A. Charlo Agnes 194 ' Bad Wine 194 Remember This Time 194 Buffalo (Qeyqay) 195 You, You Missed Me 195 Put Sey (Good Enough) 196 Roger Dunsmore You're Just Dirt 197 A True War Story 198 Mark Gibbons Back into Rock 199 Jennifer Greene Rocky Boy Visit 200 Arlee (my hometown) 201 Tami Haaland Liar 202 Not Scientifically Verifiable 203 Ann White Haggett She Teeters 204 Lowell Jaeger My Neighbor 205 The Missionary 206 Mom Said 206 Melissa Kwasny Chokecherries 207 Iris 208 Ed Lahey The Blind Horses 210 Gimp O'Leary's Iron Works 211 Inside Her 212 Moving 213 VIII Eve Malo El Pozo de mis abuelos (My Grandparents'Well) 214 Robert Pack Blindness 215 November 216 Greg Pape Storm Pattern 218 Lower Yellowstone Falls 219 View of the Bitterroot 220 Carolyn Pettit Pinet Six Women Laughing 221 Lois Red Elk Wakanyeja (Sacred Gift) 222 Porcupine on the Highway 223 Henry Real Bird Tail That's Light 224 June Billings Safford The Vet Said She May Have Been Thirty 225 M. L. Smoker Variola 226 Cas Still Counting 229 David E. Thomas The Ten Thousand Things 230 Joe Wilkins Then I Packed You up the Ridge Like a Brother on My Back 232 Highway 233 Paul Zarzyski What's Sacred: 234 Partner 235 Nevada Krista Benjamin Letter from My Ancestors 238 Roy A. Chavez Cafe parados (Coffee for Two) 239-240 Bill Cowee Do Not Resuscitate 241 No Place To Anchor The Ladder 241 Joe Crowley Power Plants 242 To the Rear, March! 242 Robert Gonzales Calambro 243 Shaun T. Griffin The Meth Addict out My Window 244 Heron Dance 245 Los Vendedores 245 IX Linda Hussa On a Clear, Cold Calving Night 246 Love Letters 247 The Un-doing of Heaven's Match 248 The Weir 249 Claudia Keelan Leaving Las Vegas 250 Adrian C. Louis Approximate Haiku, 1980 251 In the Colony 251 Stephen Shu-Ning Liu A Mid-July Invitation 252 Steven Nightingale A Visit to the Country 253 nila northSun country 254 the little shits in daycare 255 Gailmarie Pahmeier Saving Face 256 Home Maintenance 257 Ismael Garcia Santillanes Jimmy Took Too Long to Die 258 Gary Short Teaching Poetry to 3rd Graders 259 Test 260 Magpies in the Graveyard 261 New Mexico Tacey M. Atsitty Alch'a'abaa' 264 Fourteen Days After Shima's Vision 265 Amenorrhea 265 Jimmy Santiago Baca XXVI (de Meditaciones sobre el Valle del Sur / from Meditations on the South Valley) 267 - 268 VIII (de Meditaciones sobre el Valle del Sur / from Meditations on the South Valley) 269 Jim Barnes Autobiography, Chapter 5: Ghost Town 270 Paiute Ponies 270 The Ranch, Wild Horse Canyon, 1943 271 Marianne A. Broyles American Island 272 Jon Davis Horse in Shadow 273 Loving Horses 273 Joy Harjo Songline of Dawn 275 Perhaps the World Ends Here 276 Rainy Dawn 277 Eagle Poem 277 Phyllis Hoge section iii (from El Paso) 278 Joan Logghe Blanco Ascending 279 Carol Moldaw Festina Lente 280 Out of the West 281 Sara Marie Ortiz From First Emergence to Last 282 Michael Pettit Sparrow of Espanola 283 Driving Lesson 284 Leo Romero Perros Del Diablo 286 An Angel Aids Jesus 288 Henry Shukman Step 289 The Airport Shuttle 290 Arthur Sze Looking Back on the Muckleshoot Reservation from Galisteo Street, Santa Fe 291 Qualia 291 Diane Thiel Wild Horses, Placitas 292 At the Mailbox 292 Richard Vargas laid off 293 baby brother's blues 294 ancestor 295 race war 296 Erika T.
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