ON THE LEVEL ~

(photo ~ bob arnold)

HAPPY NEW YEAR ! ~

New Year 2019

(photo ~ bob arnold)

EMILY IN SNOW ~

(photo ~ bob arnold)

ICE CURL ~

When ice can be loved

(photo ~ bob arnold)

ED OCHESTER ~

I've had this poem up for decades 

out in our woodshed 

because it's good to laugh

when you're working hard

FLYING! ~

Star Flyer

Scotland

TOWNES TALKS PANCHO AND LEFTY ~

ROSANNE CASH ~

JOHN LEE HOOKER ~

BO DIDDLEY TAKES THE STAGE ~

URSULA K. LE GUIN ~ (So Far So Good)

Theodora

I think how fine my mother was.

Her doings and her things were lovable.

Her turquoise bracelets, her violet

dinner dress with a jeweled waist.

The way when she was undressing

she'd go around with her nylons unhitched.

I think of all this now with tenderness

and comfort in the recollection.

Oh I was so angry at her when she died

for dying, but at last that's gone

and she comes to me again with silver

and turquoise on her wrists

in the sunlight.

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So Far So Good

Ursula K. Le Guin

Final Poems 2014-2018

Copper Canyon Press

THE BLASTERS ( FARM AID ) ~

LINK WRAY ( LIVE ) ~

THAT LONESOME VALLEY ~

GHOST RIDERS IN THE SKY ~

FIRST AID KIT LIVE ~

NATIVE AMERICAN HOOP DANCING ~

HEAVEN LAKE (14) ~

Steps

Life

is

but

an

ad

just

ment

The Face Of A Dictator

( take your pick )

All that has made you

Sick in the past

Is present

Ambiance

Turn off everything —

Hear all the animals

Again

Tipi

Bean poles

Branch the

Moonlight

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Bob Arnold

Heaven Lake

Longhouse 2018

MISSING YOU ~

MARCEL SCHWOB ~

R E A D      M E

GUY BIRCHARD's ONLY SEEMLY ~

R E A D     M E

FILMSTUDIE ~ (1926)

H A N S      R I C H T E R

HANS RICHTER ~

EDWARD SAID ~

Bloomsbury 2004

15 ROUNDS ~

BICYCLE THIEVES ~

HAND-SPLITS ~

accuracy ~

poets take note

DYLAN | TO THE CIRCUS ~

DYLAN ~ MORE BLOOD ON THE TRACKS ~

JIMMY PAGE | FULL ADDRESS ~

KENJI MIYAZAWA ~

If you have never laughed

or cried, and need to,

want to, go read

the stories, the poems

of Kenji Miyazawa

[ BA ]

The New York Review of Books

HENRY MILLER ~

Henry Miller

THE  PARIS  REVIEW  INTERVIEW

Arcade Publishing 2014

HEAVEN LAKE (13) ~

Don’t Ask Me Where

The day we took all the back roads for the first time

And ended on many of the roads with a road that

Dwindled down to next to nothing, first returning us

To a wilder state, then grass, then a dead end was the

Day we went places and couldn’t stop talking about it

They've Been Told

Whenever people come

traveling down our

winding woods

river back road

they've been told

to look for a

landmark —

“a red house”

not ours but

they stop at our

red house

momentarily

lost

and we get

to visit for

a moment with

people heading

somewhere else

Pleasure

the maze built for children

a week ago is gone, taken away

but the circular grass of their

padded footsteps is here

Truck Lights

Every night and never

dusk but pitch dark a

truck comes up our dirt

back road in slow low

gear and now with mud

season we can really hear

the truck grind and I know

it is the same truck by the

string of lights on top of

the cab and I’ve let it go

past minding my own

business until it started

going by once and then

it was twice and now it is

three times and even my

wife hears the truck plowing

by very slowly at 4AM when

she normally awakens and

starts to work, rebuilding a

wood fire, finding her socks

and now I see peering out the 

window as the truck passes

it may be a dump truck and

why is it going round and

round each time on the hour —

no one knows and we know no

one to ask — it’s all deep dark

woods where the truck comes

through — it’s become a world

all its own

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Bob Arnold

Heaven Lake

Longhouse 2018