WITH ME ~

One of the most influential duos in the Blues pantheon, Leroy Carr on piano and his partner Scrapper Blackwell on guitar cut this dancing on the rooftop delight five years before Carr's untimely death in 1935. Blackwell would retire shortly thereafter. A legacy for decades to follow.

SNOWLOAD ~

THE LONG WAY HOME


January and no thaw

Freezing days and nights

Far back in the woods

I stamped caked ice

Off my snowshoes after

Breaking into the open

Onto an old logging road

Returning down into the valley

Sunlight rinsing the hills

Passing my neighbor’s pasture

I feel staring between the trees

Huddled in deep snow

The whole world stop

As horses watch

photo © bob arnold