[RealPoetik] Lindsay Tigue

[RealPoetik Magazine]

 HOW TO CARE FOR BUFFALO HORNS


*“And all we had to do was take these hides from their wearers. It was a
harvest. We were the harvesters.”*
– Frank H. Mayer


*The Buffalo Harvest*
You will need:
a soft cloth
linseed oil
car wax
an air canister.
You will need buffalo horns.

Buffalo were shot
for sport, men hanging
out train car windows.
A Kiowa woman remembered
a pile of bones as tall as a man
and a mile long, ready
to ship to eastern markets.

They say the buffalo used
to block the tracks
a thousand strong. That once
an impatient conductor
fired at a herd. They stampeded,
derailed his train.

So, wipe the horns of dust
and debris. Apply linseed oil.
Let it soak. Apply car wax
with your fingertips
in a circular motion.
Finish by dusting
with compressed air.


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