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The bearded man with delving eyes had cast
his stare across my path, had strewn black cats
about, had sent me spinning back somewhere
to grab her gingham apron starchly there.

And too his dog, huge Chow it was, so black
with purple tongue and devil grin, sat back
and watched from picket pen me play so near;
through the tiny slot I knew it knew my fear.

And I still see his alligator gar,
Oh, yes, so stinky dead, those teeth,
and snout, and eyes with perpetual stare,
rotting in his yard, a smell beneath
his willow tree; and whirl I'd go and seek
to find her touch, for me, small and meek.

 

 

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

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