Monday, February 18, 2019

HEAVEN LAKE (21) ~









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