Monday, May 11, 2020

YOKEL ( 30 ) ~











Little Differences






I don’t know that much about furnaces

So I listen to Native



Native hasn’t read a book in twenty years

So he listens to me






Nowhere





Strange to see —

A sofa abandoned

In the woods

Off a dirt road

By the river we hike

No one around for miles



We turn the sofa back

Onto its legs, sit down

Call the dog up with us







Go~Along






stars

bright



enough

light



snowshoe

trail the



woods all

night




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Bob Arnold hails from a long lineage of 
lumbermen, loggers, and builders who settled in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, just south of the Green Mountains, in the 1700s. He began working as a builder in the 1960s and hasn’t stopped, having built homes and stone structures in his region of southern Vermont for over five decades. 

His books On Stone, a builder’s notebook
and Sunswumthru A Building address much of this world, while By Heart, pages from a lost Vermont  begins a storytelling which will connect with present day Yokel.

Since 1971 he has edited & published hundreds of journals, books and anthologies of other writers with his wife Susan. His books of poetry & prose have appeared almost every year since 1974. Bob also authors a blog : A Longhouse Birdhouse: surveying books, music, cinema and earth ways.


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Bob Arnold
Yokel
Longhouse
2011