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Ruined Choirs

Along Hilliard Road
at Rocky Ranch
as we go by every day,
we see trees dying,
see them die
them dead—
Live Oaks,
three,
more,
another — a corpse torqued,
scarring sky.

Daily we see
these dead oaks —
dry bones,
to make
us cry.

 

Home of Dick Heaberlin Writes

Orange House Books

A Cavalcade of Oilfield Novels

Fountain Wells: Oilfield Novels of Ontario, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia

Gushers: Oilfield Novels of Texas

Poetry Collections

Trotting With the Fox

My Writing Guides

English Syntax:
A Guide to the Grammar of Successful Writers—
Writing Style 1

Connecting for Coherence:
A Guide to Building Sentences With Syntax And Logic—
Writing Style 2

Purposeful Punctuation:
A Syntactic Guide to English Punctuation—
Writing Style 3

Word Wisdom:
A Guide to Selecting Words
for Writers and Editors—Writing Style 4

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