Able Muse - farming https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/302/302? en The West https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/poetry/timothy-murphy/west? <h2> <p>The West</p> </h2> <h4> <p>I. Front Range</p> </h4> <p>Lean men prone to heroic understatement,<br /> they have a drawled, laconic way of speaking.<br /> They know that for their debts there&rsquo;s no abatement<br /> nor boundaries to the vistas they are seeking.<br /> <br /> No, there&rsquo;s only the Front Range of the Rockies<br /> behind which the westering sun is setting<br /> on stallion breakers too strong to be jockeys<br /> and water rights the Judge of all is vetting.</p> <h4> <p>II.&nbsp; <em>Jornada del Muerto</em></p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/poetry/timothy-murphy/west?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/poetry/timothy-murphy/west?#comments Poetry drought farming mountain climbing movies nature poem the west Timothy Murphy v7 Sun, 10 May 2009 19:00:05 +0000 Administrator 251 at https://www.ablemuse.com