In the Shade

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

Green and cool are His plants—
fir, black gum, pine,
redwood, wisteria vine:
West of San Rafael, coastal
redwoods let little slits
of sun slip through, minute
bits within a canopy of shade;
Jonah loved God's gourd;
Along Cow bayou near the Sabine
beneath Cypress trees, and amidst
the grotesque knees, steaming light
slides across black swamp water;
Beneath long leaf and loblolly pine,
boyscouts sing,
"Green grow the rushes, ho";
Jonah wanted shade;
and East of Alamogordo
high in the Sacramentos
Douglas fir and blue spruce
cooly cover the rocky soil
allowing occasional rays
to dart through.
I, like Jonah, want shade,
want protection, need a Deity
to intercede, to come between
nature and me, to darken the
Sun, its radiance, its heat,
its naked burning purity,
to reflect its heat from me.

 

 

 

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