Ramona Weeks
Ramona Weeks (1934-1997) was educated at Texas Chrisitian University, and began her professional career as guest editor of Madamoiselle, in fiction, the year after Sylvia Plath. Poems from her collection, Lincoln County Poems, have appeared in: Ball State University Forum, Descant, Huerfano, The Little Magazine, New Mexico Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Sipapu, Sumac, and The Yale Review. 
Articles by this Author
LINES TO BE SPOKEN BY PAT GARRETT, WHEN OLDER
- By Ramona Weeks
- Published 10/1/1999
- MaverickMagazine 1
- Unrated
An outlaw can hold his breath
longer than light in summer.
Breathing holes in the armor,
boy, propel you into the ages;
though you have cuckolded courage,
slept with old bitches
in rain as randy as rabbits
and stink like an unwrapped Pharaoh,
longer than light in summer.
Breathing holes in the armor,
boy, propel you into the ages;
though you have cuckolded courage,
slept with old bitches
in rain as randy as rabbits
and stink like an unwrapped Pharaoh,
ONE MORE POEM ABOUT BILLY THE KID
- By Ramona Weeks
- Published 10/1/1999
- MaverickMagazine 1
- Unrated
Nobody's got him quite right:
Billy, the boy with the many names:
Antrim, McCarty, Bonney, and the Kid
from Silver City, the small town boy
with the Minolta camera look:
the film saturated with silver.
Billy, the boy with the many names:
Antrim, McCarty, Bonney, and the Kid
from Silver City, the small town boy
with the Minolta camera look:
the film saturated with silver.
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