Henry Moore

Henry Moore was a smart old cowboy
a smart old cowboy was he

Just as sly as a fox
be bought twenty-foot salt blocks
and set them out in West Texas in winter

Where a thousand strong tongues
changed those basic hard foods
into a bunch of reclining nudes

There are times when it bothers 
my conscience to see
them hangin’ around London,
New York, and D.C.

Then I remember old Hank is one of the boys
just suckerin’ some dudes with these toys

So I decide not to chip off the bronze

Winner at the Great Salt Lick Contest, Baker City Oregon
https://whitdeschner.com/salt-lick-gallery/

1 thoughts on “Henry Moore

  1. Joy

    Great Salt Lick Gallery?
    In a way this is a metaphor for your poetry! You take a bundle of words and work at them for a while (perhaps with a pen and not a tongue) then put them on display. The reader is left to see your work of art, feel them from our own point of view, cast them in brass to preserve what meaning we can interpret. Then see them from a different angle the next time we come across them. A rancher knows that salt is as essential to life as poetry is to souls. All take on a rare form when seen at the right angle.
    Thanks for this view!

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