Stubby Pencil Poems of Rural Livin' Doin's

There is a certain uniqueness to rural life that not many, except those living the country lifestyle daily, experience. This is a lifestyle of intimacy with nature and with domesticated animals that rural life depends upon.

G.B. Griffith's poetry positively exudes the calm and quiet of the rural life of a wizened cowboy. His words illustrate the intimacy of daily tasks such as grooming and feeding. Reading his poetry is like feeling the horse's breath on your own palm or hearing the swish of their tails with your own ears.

I talk to them gentle. Horses seem to like that, don't know the whats or whys. Maybe it's us, maybe it's them. Maybe it's the both of us, Man and Horse. I ask 'em about it. They just look at me with those soft, big brown eyes.