Red Peg

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

Up there, on the surface of the Sun,
The Fire Beast grazes on gaseous plains,
sometimes exploding into fiery fury,
shaking her flaxen mane and sending rays
deep into space. Ripples of her sorrel
shoulders swirl tornadic energy away—
white blasts arcing out. Her hooves
strike sparks as riderless she bows
her back, bucking torches toward us.
Then the Fire Beast relents, rests,
as if hobbled, eared down, twitched.
Yet the eyes of the steed still flash fire
and the heart pumps lava about. Temporarily
timid and tamed she refrains from releasing
the cataclysmic blasts, dear old Peg.

 

 

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