Monday, February 23, 2009

Bessie Dreaming Bear


Painting by Howard Terpning

Bessie Dreaming Bear

by Marnie Walsh

Rosebud, So. Dak., 1960


we all went to town one day
went to a store
bought you new shoes
red high heels

ain't seen you since.



Reprinted from A Taste of the Knife, Ahsahta Press, Boise, ID, 1976, by permission of Tom Trusky, literary executor of the Walsh estate.

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