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Young Rexroth
“Once more all the awe
of a boy from the prairie”
—Kenneth Rexroth,
“The Living Pearl,” Selected
Poems, New Directions 1984
when you — were sixteen
riding freight — on the chicago
milwaukee — st. paul and the
great northern — northern pacific
the names — still sounding
more romantic — than today
burlington — gone santa fe
you got here — long before me
pack-saddling — wild mustangs
untamed — like you…
pintos — zebra dunns
gunmetal roans — buckskins
and splattered — lallapaloosas
mass drives — in the okanogen
gathering wild horses — horse heaven
30 head — up the methow
up to twisp — lake chelan
down the skagit — to puget sound
cooking — and camp work
scissorbills — buying them
pulling milk wagons — sedro wooley
coronado’s — ponies
here i am now — puget sound
bungalow down — by the bay
prairie boyz — who got away
“Once more all the awe
of a boy from the prairie”
—Kenneth Rexroth,
“The Living Pearl,” Selected
Poems, New Directions 1984
when you — were sixteen
riding freight — on the chicago
milwaukee — st. paul and the
great northern — northern pacific
the names — still sounding
more romantic — than today
burlington — gone santa fe
you got here — long before me
pack-saddling — wild mustangs
untamed — like you…
pintos — zebra dunns
gunmetal roans — buckskins
and splattered — lallapaloosas
mass drives — in the okanogen
gathering wild horses — horse heaven
30 head — up the methow
up to twisp — lake chelan
down the skagit — to puget sound
cooking — and camp work
scissorbills — buying them
pulling milk wagons — sedro wooley
coronado’s — ponies
here i am now — puget sound
bungalow down — by the bay
prairie boyz — who got away
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