Monday, February 16, 2009


BOB ARNOLD



28 POEMS & TWO INTERVIEWS
EDITED BY JAMES KOLLER
NEW FROM COYOTE'S JOURNAL
~ HERE'S A SIP








EDGE OF LAND


What overtakes me more —
The blue of the sea or her dress
Raised, wading, high above her knees





THE WOODCUTTER TALKS



Long before the great ships at sea
There were the deep inland forests

I stand in one today knee-deep in snow
10 degrees with a wind

My saw shut-down
Oil freeze to bar and gloves

Listening awhile to the ships at sea
The long groaning waves

High high
Above me






FLOATING WORLD



It was a dreamy time for you and me
The weather said so

The pair of windows that opened like shutters
The easy turn of the latch

Through the opening light dazzled
Something like your hair

Many years married I loved you like
A young girl from behind

A small bird with flashing orange wings
Sang from a tree that grew to our window

In this hut we built with our own hands
Some would call it a fairytale

These days pass by as light becomes darkness
There is next to nothing to show for it






SLY



By truck we were
Heading home the same
Time we saw fox heading
Home by the side of the road
Muddy legs like quick
Moving boots he made
His way and I swear
We looked at him
And he looked at us
And the Earth was whole





Bob Arnold has for decades worked from Longhouse in Vermont with Susan along a very cold woods river in the winter that gentles out by June. His books of poetry and prose have been issued since 1974. His most recent book of poems Hiking Down From A Hillside Sky will be released from Bull Thistle Press in Jamaica, Vermont come spring.

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