Jehovah in the Bunkhouse

bible sits
in company
with the Whiskey
and the Powder River
Hymnals another day the
YHVH brand singed the herd's
hair and the dingo in a neck bandana
attends the bunkhouse prayer that takes
the cowgirls heads down to the vowels of
eloah each woman with identical tasks upon
their beeswax lips and bag balm softened hips
grazing their cattle together

forming a
close association
where feral mustangs
tell the story with the height
of their ears and the smell of
their distinctive brand once young
foals born of wild mares grown up wild
and free in these years Hollywood portrayal
of Jehovah in the bunkhouse by the firebrand
and The Sundance Wives

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist