Monday, February 25, 2019

HEAVEN LAKE (22) ~









He’s Nearby



                     for Franco



I hear

leaf

caught

in bicycle

spoke










JK & JPV





He said

when he

was old

real old

he would

go live in

Venice and

watch the

pretty women



She said

no the

prettiest

women with

the best

legs were

not in Venice

or France but

Czech women



He thought

a moment

and said

okay when

I am old

and alone

I will go

live in

Prague






I Sent To My Mother






my book of forty years of

love poems and she never

said if she received the book

or not, so I asked —

and she sighed

“Oh yes, I have that


I put it away”










Family Tree





They have come to visit

From a long way off —

The expectations are thrilling 




He is 40

She is 30

Their daughter is 3



By the time they leave

After nearly two weeks

He is miserable



She is middling

And the daughter 

Keeps hugging us





for John






_______________________


Bob Arnold
Heaven Lake

Longhouse 2018