Across Dawn's Edge

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The American Southwest

The American South Central

Eighteenth Century England and Scotland

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Cowboy Dialect in Print

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We try to talk about
how across the edge of dawn
we see and hear
the wind and light and form of things.
We try to
but come out empty-mouthed
tongue-snubbed
while seeing the metamorphic light
bring,
in a blink,
new forms, new things newly lit
newly colored—
a green,
glowing
with violet and gold—try and fail to find words
and settle for,
the shapes and sounds
we have,
settle for this bird,
beating—
from the juniper grove,
suddenly,bursting.

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

Harness Bells

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

Skinny Writing:
A Guide to Concise Prose
for Writers and Editors—Writing Style 4

Other Books of Interest

Other Sites of Interest