Artist and Flopping Chicken

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

 

Did Picasso see chickens
neck-wrung
flopping awkward in the yard
with bloody beast beats
at the hardened, red, corn-strewn earth,
see those wind blown blood blossoms?


Did he, with pig-faced
leering
lusting voyeurs
see
as Baudelaire?

but once the white light
eats petal mass
the air must lie quiet

Did he sweat it?

 

 

 

Swerve Poems

Art 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: 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

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
Email Dick Heaberlin