BLUE-COLLAR LIGHT
© 1998 - Red Wing Press, W. Sacramento, CA

› Nightcrawlers     10 Cents A Dozen     505 Poplar St.
› First Mass With Noni
› Blue-Collar Light
› Bingo In The Church Basement
› Antipasto!
› The Day The Black Man Came Like An Angel
› Rock Cut
› Linguistics
› Mom’s Yellow Pole
› My Father’s Sheets
› Hurley High
› The Punt Blocker
› Riding Double: 16 & Beating The Heat [read the poem]
› Why I Like Butte, Or: How She Goin’ Today, Just?
› Birthday Biscotti—Italian Toast From Home
› Words Growing Wild In The Woods [read the poem]

ALL THIS WAY FOR THE SHORT RIDE
(with the 1996 Western Heritage Wrangler Award)
© 1996, Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, NM

› Ain’t No Life after Rodeo
› Benny Reynolds’ Bareback Riggin’
› Hip-Cocked Broncs
› How the Lord Throwed-in with Mom to Make Me quit the Broncs
› Rosined-Up-’n’-Itchin’-to-Git
› Retiring Ol’ Gray
› The Horseman, The Poet, The Code, The Horse
› Buck
› Luck of the Draw
› All This Way for the Short Ride [read the poem]
› Matched Pairs
› Samurai Cowboy [read the poem]

› Escorting Grammy to the Potluck Rocky Mountain Oyster Feed at Bowman’s Corner
› The Heavyweight Champion Pie-Eatin’ Cowboy of the West
› P.S. Pie-Romaniac Sequel
› To Wallace
› Talkin’ Roughstock
› A Song Moment for Ian Tyson
› Monte Carlo Express—Box 258, 15.3 Miles Home
› After the Blue Norther, Another True Story
› Rodeo-Road Founder: Highway Horseplay
› Staircase
› Partner
› The Night the Devil Danced on Me
› The Night I Hated Baxter Black…
› A Cowboy Reel
› She Holds Her Favorite Cowboy Close
› The Bucking Horse Moon [read the poem]
› Pegasus, She Ain’t
› April Showers
› The Roughstockoholic’s “Just-One-More-Last-One” Blues
› A Wild-’n’-Wooly Western Episode from Rodeo Rider Afterlife in the Erroneous, Erogenous Twilight Zone

I AM NOT A COWBOY
© 1995, Dry Crik Press, Lemon Cove, CA

› Luck of the Draw
› Snapshot of Grandpa Frank
› Flat Crick’s Mad Gourmet Poet & His Fishing Fanatic Neighbor Hold The First-Ever Polecatting Derby
› Why I Like Butte or: How She Goin’ Today, Just?
› The Hand [read the poem]
› The Meaning of Intimacy [see the broadside]
› Hip-Cocked Broncs
› Shoes
› Blankets
› For Jasper, With an Arf-Arf-Arf to Ars Poetica
› Why I am not going to buy a computer
› A Salute to the Virtues & Blue of the Rural Postmaster
› Monte Carlo Express     P.O. Box 258     15.3 Miles Home
› The Day The War Began
› Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko—Cowboy Poet
› I am Not a Cowboy [read the poem]

BOOK CONTENTS:
PAGE 1
PAGE 2
PAGE 3
PAGE 4


© Paul Zarzyski
All Rights Reserved