Chuckwagon Had a Spring Broken

Cowpunchers at corrida
Spring broke on the chuck
Bread and honey spread thin

Hardship mended fences
Strand of barb wire cut off
Spliced to repair fate to begin again

Longhorns waiting for a sign
Ghosts in spurs leaving a vapor trail at their ankles
Women in the saddle said what it did to spirit rusted tin

Blacksmith forge miracle anvil
Coals proper for soldering
She passed around the bottle of gin

When the day was over and night began
Cowgirls blessed with fixing a weak spring
Morning sun shown on the wheel with a broken linch pin

Hardship mended fences
Strand of barb wire cut off
Spliced to repair fate to begin again

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist