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poetry

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of the American Southwest

of the American South Central

of Eighteenth Century England and Scotland

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American Dialect

Cowboy Dialect in Print

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The bearded man with delving eyes had cast
his stare across my path, had strewn black cats
about, had sent me spinning back somewhere
to grab her gingham apron starchly there.

And too his dog, huge Chow it was, so black
with purple tongue and devil grin, sat back
and watched from picket pen me play so near;
through the tiny slot I knew it knew my fear.

And I still see his alligator gar,
Oh, yes, so stinky dead, those teeth,
and snout, and eyes with perpetual stare,
rotting in his yard, a smell beneath
his willow tree; and whirl I'd go and seek
to find her touch, for me, small and meek.

 

 

Poems

Home of Dick Heaberlin Writes

Orange House Books

Our Writing Workshops

My Writing Books

English Syntax— A Guide to the Grammarof 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— 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