Monday, December 18, 2017

LUCKY ~








Heavenly Ring





Tonight —

because of her



because of me

& the telescope



I bought for her

birthday and she



has become so adept

she calls me out into



the chill spring eve to

look straight up



through lenses to a

miraculous visitation



with Saturn, of all places











ABC Of Love





Once a sassy woman student

Asked me during a reading

If I ever had a leech

On my penis knowing

I lived in the woods

And bathed in a river



The class of women

All held their breaths —



When my wife arrived smiling

And radiant ready to meet

The class for the first time

She answered the question










Immediate Family

for Cid





Either sentimental

Or superstitious &

Maybe both while

Finishing a day

Tree cutting I

Kneel to level

A last ash stump

Which throws up

Two wet leaves onto

The fresh wood &

Seeing that add

One more leaf be-

Tween the two

Making sure

All touch











Lucky






She is right, this woman

I love, it has been a windy

Fall. And her blonde hair slips

Apart in long strands and with

One hand she combs it away from

Her face and she is smiling. For

Lunch she eats an apple and suns

Her legs, a summer skirt raised.

She is a mother. A small boy is

Napping upstairs in the house.

When awake he will chase

Leaves that fall down from the

Sky, that’s how he sees it.

He calls me daddy because I am.



When I was off at work this

Morning up river laying stone

Along the road in the village

A blonde woman and her young son

Visited me. Hands cold gripping

Wet stone, boots chalked. This

Woman carried her little boy

In her arms, his green sweater

Was like the one my son wears

His mother knitted, ah the love

Of mothers! and I gathered stone

By hand and thought of blue sky

Above, day clear as the river,

And why you must love what you do.



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BOB ARNOLD
I'm In Love With You
Who Is In Love With Me
Longhouse 2012