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(Near Lukuchukai Mountain, 1878)

Temperature excessive
oppressive
hardening afterbirth
and seeking on sand
bleats of life.

Busy hands of the reed clan
and night
like buzzards
beaten back for a time
by reeds afire.

Hands of burning skin
busy among bleats
and white piles
with frozen
shadows.

Ewes mixing milling
crying in the
frenzied frozen
time of tired
bone.

Copper touch of first
glow with no heat
though busy
on western mesas
with hope.

Poems

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

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