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A one shot thing
Nobody's Business but ours
They believed they were invisible
but they were not
the darkest hours
10 x 42 binoculars
a bold stare
by the fire
in the sun
in the tent
as did it go

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Pools and setbacks
Icy water up in his hand
Crystalline drops glistening with wet
Snowmelt
A scarf of bubbles
The willows swayed stiffly
The horses drank
Jack dismounted
(16)

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You never brought any trouts home
Always said you caught plenty
That line hadn't touched water in its life
(15)

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There’s nothin we can do
Built a life up in them years
It ain’t her fault
If what happened back there grabs on us
In the wrong place we’ll be dead
No reins on this one (12)

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Old Brokeback got us good
I doubt there's nothing now we can do
I shouldn't a let you out a my sights
There's no reins on this one
Ain't nothin like this (12)

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He wears his best white shirt
Awaiting his mate
A once hot and clear morning turns to a cloudy sky
Out west all that exists,
Is the sultry air between the two
(9)

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They slammed him with the tire iron
broke his nose and jaw knocked him unconscious on his back
drowning in his own blood
Jack would not answer
(20).

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A hot jolt
Seized them by the shoulders
Their mouths came together
Wet saliva welling
Shutting the door
Chest and groin and thigh and leg together
9

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Jack's own shirt
Two skins
Two in one
Heavy, dirty, ripped, missing
Power of Brokeback Mountain
Held in his hands
Nothing else left
No smell of Jack
No mountain sage
salty sweet
faintest smoke of Jack
Only the memory
Lost long ago
pg. 23

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We could a had a good life
real good life.
What we got now is
Brokeback Mountain.
Count the few times.
Measure the short leash.
You're too much.
I wish I knew
how to quit you. (19)

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Could a had a

Good life

A real

Good life

Brokeback Mountain

Everything built on that

Everything we got

Once or twice a year

I cant make it

I'll say it just one time

I wish I knew how to quit you

page 19

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High-time supper by the fire
Lavender ski emptied of color
Drinking
Smoking cigarettes
Firelight throwing a sparkle
Talking horses and rodeo
Roughstock events
Wrecks and injuries sustained
Ennis felt he could paw the white out of the moon (5)

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He wanted to be scattered
On Brokeback Mountain.
Some pretend place
Where the blue birds sing
And there's a whiskey spring.
I didn't know where that was,
So he was cremated,
And we put up a stone.
(pg 21)