Buffalo Tales

By Judy Frazer Brouillette

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 2, 2023
• ISBN: 9781669875628

Judy Frazer Brouillette

Judy Frazer Brouillette was born in Lafayette, Alabama, three miles from Buffalo, in 1935. She spent many happy days at her grandfather’s farm at Buffalo, where she heard many of the true stories that she turned into poems. They are as amusing now as they were in the old days of her childhood.

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Copyright © 2023 by Judy Frazer Brouillette.

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Rev. date: 05/02/2023

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CONTENTS

Renaissance

After the Rain

Horoscope

Mother’s Motto

Justice

Birthday

The Beatys

Tranquility

Angst

Ralph and the Mule

The Mallard King

Memory of Booney

The Logging Truck

The Omen

March

Gerontocracy

Parsimony

The Hired Man

Kobe

Wanderlust

Mother’s Driving Lesson

Cycles

Night Flight to Dallas

Upholsterer’s Shop

Nostrum

Terminus

Integrity

The Healer

Assignation

Eley’s Turkey

Grooming the Mule

Celie

Chimera

Bereavement

Famine

Ode to a Birthday Lady

Widows of War

Poem

Asylum

Therapy

Satisfaction

The Messy Desk

The Prattler

The Avengers

Metamorphosis

Living High on the Hog

Education

Constancy

November Dawn

The Quarrel

Summer Drought

Critique

Eulogy

Farewell

The Bobsled

Rappelling Down the Transom

The Firstborn

The Miser

Stuck in the Past

Eley’s Ducks

The Dancing Lesson

Monkeyshines

Illusions

The Uniform

The Career Pool

The Yard Man

The Underdog

Cloudwalk Dawn

The Trend-Setter

Cairo Midnight

Yard Sale After the Funeral

Déjà vu

Legacy

Author’s reason for creating the mule icon:

The poems that are designated with a mule icon are true stories, some of which date back to the early 1900s, in the time of my parents’ childhood.

RENAISSANCE

The breath of evening blows its perfumed sighs,

And blossoms float upon the leaves like snow;

The damp, chill grave of winter opens wide,

And spills spring’s sweetness on the hills below.

The scattered seeds of fruit forever green

Still lie in darkness, waiting for the dawn;

When warmth of sunlight casts its golden glow

Old winter’s pall another year is gone.

AFTER THE RAIN

Winding roads still weave their silver threads

Through stubbled fields,

Stitching corn to wheat.

Brown-bearded grasses nod their sleepy heads,

Replete with ripened seed,

And sing the wind’s soft songs.

Tall poles like sentinels

Flex their mighty arms

And hoist the dangling wires through empty miles.

Small birds sit gossiping on those wires

And dart bright eyes

To scan the frost-heaved furrows,

Seeking scanty sustenance.

A host of icy puddles wink