Bluebonnet
Ranger-bed!
“Forever! Ole Smiley! Blue-skies to the horizon-yonder!”
Fast-gun
Texas Ranger tells his horse in
comfort-wonder!
“24”-years
experience-memories safe behind him
Bank
robbers Carmen-gang he’s out to catch
them
Galveston
Island lays far-off east on the Gulf-shore
Rosita awaits her Ranger’s return as so often before
Purple-eve
approaches a tiny campfire in the north hills
Hot coffee! Cold
biscuits!
Ah! Just not too many frills
Diamond-sparkle
canopy above; bluebonnets soft-bed
Friend-Smiley nickers-softly satiating Ranger’s dread
Restful-sleep
keeping one-eye always on-guard awake
Pays
to be careful-vigilant for life’s own survival-sake
Carmen’s dodged north of
ole Dallas-town plumb-Wild!
Probably
headed home to New Mexico Territory Mild!
“Be
quite a ride! Smiley! Many swift-rivers
to cross.
“We’ll
get ’em! Boy! Sure show ’em who’s
boss!”
Ten
long days in the saddle absent any human contact
Caught
sign of their dust but daylight-enough lacked
In
Northern Texas Bluebonnets carpeted range serene-thick
Farther
west rattlesnakes slithered a forked-tongue deadly lick
“Yeah!
Smiley! They’re headed home where
they just gotta Go!
“We’ll
cut them off short this side of harbor Illano
Estacado!”
Cactus! & Rattlers! The country painful-stabs or
deadly-bites!
Fitting home for
Carmen-outlaws and their kin hideout
sites
Caught-up with Ira and Jeb at Adobe Flats fresh-water springs
They exited Wild-shooting at dawn in a canyon filled
echo-rings
Ira told the Ranger that Seth died from a lethal rattlesnake strike
And ole Ezra succumbed to a Jeb-bullet o’re a gal the both liked
A Ranger travels where e’re the law sends
cowboy-justice swift
Whisper-wind Freedom! See all adventure-sights! Slowly-drift!
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