Poem to Polson

For many small towns in the West, the annual Summer rodeo is theater; New York has Broadway, the West has its chutes. The streets empty. The stands fill. Everyone’s at the rodeo. The sun never seems to set. While Summer rural rodeos often draw tourists, the gatherings are by, for and about the locals—and their locale. ”Poem to Polson” is a celebration of those annual hot summer evenings when all in town gather and agree, it’s rodeo time in Polson, Montana.