Powder River (Hymnals) Snowed White

calf skin western book jackets
vellum tomes louis l'amour's sacketts
ride in pommel saddlebags preaches outlaw rackets
mountain man not ruled by religion but by hatchets

powder horn and six beaver traps
snaring the slow agony and surprise attacks
starvation-drawn signal on the rendezvous maps
whiskey wrapped in buffalo pelts and beaver caps

powder river hymnals snowed white
durango disperses poetry day and night
foes frostbit unfit toes falling gangrenous blight
cowboy israel baited tobacco sack smoking out coffer plight

strongbox survival butcher knife jewel
turquoise winter thickness gem of a mule
well-worn powder river hymnals jerky fed fuel
call of the wild aces and eights tipped off ferule

rhyme and reason in demand
season of treason played the hand
divided into parties lost foothold on land
politics the tradition of rendezvous took a stand

tampering with spirit
outlaws didn't want to hear it
warning hiss of the black-footed ferret
apocalypse looms the new order weavers appear fit

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity firebrand lesbian novelist