Song Kowbell
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Photo courtesy of Rowan Merante |
SONG KOWBELL is a poet who lives in Penn Valley, California.
She is unafraid to take what it is she wants: man, woman, or
heart. Song has been a featured reader for the highly acclaimed
Nevada County Poetry Series,
and at Luna's and at Urban Voices in Sacramento, CA. Her poems
have been published in Rattlesnake Review and two
Nevada County Poetry Series Anthologies (Years 2004 and
2005); in 2005, Rattlesnake Press published a littlesnake
broadside of her work (Watching the Rabbit); if you’d
like a free copy, send an SASE to Rattlesnake Press. Song has
traveled throughout the world and hitchhiked across the United
States for reasons known and unknown. She is a Search-and-Rescue
dog trainer, someone who knows and respects the natural world
and tries above all things to honor the spirits of a place.
Song Kowbell Poems
Respect for Rattlesnake Woman
lizard moving across dry leaves
draws my attention upward
where rattlesnake woman
lies warming herself
on small rock
in morning sun.
I lift small
coiled slick skin
in flat-end shovel
placing her
in garbage can
for ride to safety.
She offers no resistance
no rattle of tail
but lets me know
with the flick
of her tongue
how lightning fast
she can move
should I think
her inferior
size
reflects the
power she owns
He Wanted To
He said
he wanted to…
As if
I didn’t know…
As if I couldn’t see
the addition
to his already
tight Levis.
Reaching his hand
across the great
distance
between wanting
and getting,
I felt him,
watched him smirk,
then slowly,
casually
he says,
“ummmm I thought so.”
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