Las Cruces 1964

poetry

about literature

of the American Southwest

of the American South Central

of Eighteenth Century England and Scotland

of the oilfield

of other literature

about language

American Dialect

Cowboy Dialect in Print

about writing

Writing

about other subjects

nature art, travel, teaching, parenting, grandparenting husbanding


In a sandyard
in a desert
Aunt Sallie Dunaway
eighty-nine
whose calloused hands
firm back
force the earth tight
about juniper post
a bob of printed bonnet
post to post so slow
lift drop
pat pack
under fine sky
swirling sun
perhaps
her mind
covered her
with pine
sweetgum
sent her away
to time of
chop pick
red-iron soil
Rusk
Gladewater Nacodoches
to damp hot morning
cotton shirtwaist
grimed flesh
soft
sun hurting
to buttermilk blackeyes
corn bread
first and last light
a small force in the cottonfield
tinier now bent
yet the posts
packed tight
rise straight
in the desert

 

 

Poems

 
 

Home of Dick Heaberlin Writes

Orange House Books

Our Writing Workshops

My Writing Books

English Syntax— A Guide to the Grammar of Successful Writers — Heaberlin's Writing Style 1

Connecting for Coherence — an Applied Systematic Study of How Good Writers Connect Information With Syntax and Logic— Heaberlin's Writing Style 2

English Diction— a Guide to Selecting Appropriate Words s w— Explanations and Exercises — Heaberlin's Writing Style 3

A Guide to English Usage, Punctuation, and Mechanics — Explanations and Exercises — Heaberlin's Writing Style 4

Other Books of Interest

 

Dick Heaberlin's Website
at Texas State University

Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University

Southwest Regional Humanities Center at Texas State University
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