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From there
where cottonwood are fat,
by the parallel tracks of iron
beneath the cloudy mountains,
near the gypsum mounds
appeared that mushroom.
From
the land of Judge Fountain,
Pat Garrett, Albert Fall,
Oliver Lee,
of six shooters,
dry creeks, ambush
appeared that mushroom.
The first of its kind.
High in the Sacramentos
where clouds spread among the fir,
cool breezes pushing
the white beauty about
up and down narrow valley channels,
where rains wash clean wild raspberries,
and bear and elk move,
there was surprise
that that mushroom was,
that that new thing was there
in the desert
huge
growing.

 

 

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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

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Trotting With the Fox

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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

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