Visitors
No one visited all winter
No one —
Everyone decided
There was too much ice
From the road to the house
We’d see squirrel tracks
Cat tracks
Fox tracks
In the lightest snow
They came
Town Rain
Isn’t it great
When it rains —
Suddenly everyone is running!
Beauty Queen
The old cat
Is deaf —
Purrs louder
Lilacs
come to
them be-
fore it
is too
late
Problem Solver
I saw the face of god today —
now having lost half my readers because of the
word god, no hard feelings, let’s continue
as I was saying I saw the face of god
in fact his whole body and soul
he was walking towards us in an old Rangers team jacket
cap, shorts, he maybe even had his god beard, I believe he did
the sun returned after five straight days of rain and
no one showed up on the park bench right
outside of the grocer’s
but the two of us
and how good does it get
when god speaks to you
as we rise to leave walking the side-
walk toward this bearded transient
waving confidently one arm in the air
shouting these very words —
“You guys are the salt of the earth —
(pointing) I hate those other people”
what a
god
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Bob Arnold
Heaven Lake
Longhouse 2018
