Today's quote is the last stanza from a poem by Hugo called "To Die in Milltown," published in a 1973 collection called, The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir:
To die in Milltown, die at 6 P.M.The fast train west rattles your bourbon warm.The latest joke is on the early drunk:sing one more chorus and the nun you lovewill dance here out of habit. To livestay put. The Blackfoot, any riverhas a million years to lend, and weather'salways wild to look at down the Hellgate --solid grey forever trailing off white rain.Our drinks are full of sun. These aging eaglesclimb the river on their own.
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I'd like to have met him...over a beer in any old saloon. I still have my copy of "Triggering Town", used in my first Creative Writing course.
ReplyDeleteHe was a darlin' man.
Here's another link I found today...might be of interest http://montanagael.blogspot.com/
Yeah, I would have loved to have met him, too ... and under exactly those circumstances. Montana has lots of literary idols like that, more than almost any other state, I think.
ReplyDeleteI think of K. Ross Toole in that vein, as well. I got to take one of his very last Montana history classes, back in 1980, and it totally transformed my passion for Montana.
And thanks for the link! It would be fun to figure out how to link all these blogs together somehow, so we all get to know each other ...
Remind me to take you out to Harold's Club sometime ;)
ReplyDeleteOh, absolutely!! I've never been in there, but I've seen the sign for that place ... and it calls to me. :)
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