Baby Asleep
Walk around
Listening to
Break Away
Break away from the world
Even a loving child, friends
That travel long distances
To be with us; cross the
Shallow river to a bank of
Ferns, undress while wild
Chatter of the kingfisher
Hunts the long summer water
And years between us since
We’ve done this — naked but
For your necklace — under
Trees, evening in the leaves
My arms circled around you
From His Hand
From his hand
Awakening us
In bed, two small
Carrots brought
Out of the garden
Barely washed he
Wants us to bite
Down into what he
Terms a surprise
And we gamely do —
Watching his smile
At this given sweet —
Knowing five years ago
He was our surprise
Mother & Child
You lift
him
with a
smile
& he
smiles
back
which lifts
you
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BOB ARNOLD
I'm In Love With You
Who Is In Love With Me
Longhouse 2012
