Eight Miles Left

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With ten more miles of wire

  my horse wants to turn back

 

There’s dark clouds over the mountain

  just a small tent in my sack

 

The fence line sits all busted

  from two bulls that went astray

 

They both missed being neutered

  last year on roundup day

 

My hands are cold and blistered

  that salve jar all but gone

 

Two wolves begin to howling

  that lonesome prairie song

 

The storm clouds now have thickened

  light pulls its covers back

 

Just one more night on the western slope

  —with eight miles left to track

 

 

   ‘From The ‘Searching For Crazy Horse Collection’”

          ‘Read In Elko Years Ago’

 

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Published by Kurt Philip Behm

I am a lifelong author with 21 books published to date—one best seller. Much of my writing is about the deception of time and its many disguises. My Poetry 'An Anthology Of Perception,' is now available in four volumes. In addition I have a 175 page Poem 'After Midnight,' that was published in 2014. My Historical Fiction series, 'The Sword Of Ichiban' is now up to volume 8 which is being published this Spring ... Vol #1- The Sword Of Ichiban Vol #2- Darkening Sun Vol #3- Revenge Along The War Trail Vol #4- Death From The Sky Vol #5- Jumping Into the Darkness Vol #6- The Fall City Mandate. Vol #7- Approaching Storm Vol #8- Brothers In Blood One autobiographical novel, 'The Death Of The Playground' a Best Seller, published in 2007. One travel novel, 'Searching For Crazy Horse,' published in 2005, recapping my forty years of motorcycle touring in the American Rocky Mountain West. I have written one Children's Book, 'Sammy & Bumpers' that was published in 2016. All of my books are available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and better Book Stores world wide. Kurt Philip Behm

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