Monday, March 25, 2019

HEAVEN LAKE ( 26 ) ~








Respect Your Elders






At a forested

statue of the

poet Robert

Frost some

one had

stuck a

half burned

down cigarette

into one

of his

hands

as one

more practical

joke of the

artist-at-

work



until I

saw what

was too

lucky

to find

on the

path



a pencil



which I

replaced for

the cigarette

as if the

poet had

asked

me to






To See






To see all the

Apple blossoms

On the tree and

If you miss that

Look to the pond

Where most from

Last night’s wind

Are now floating






The Little Things






Out in the dark woods

when the power goes out

with heavy snow



there is nothing quite

like a small chocolate

drop melting in the



dark of your mouth







butterfly

going no

where in

particular







Sidewalk Storm






A complete stranger—

we begin to

talk because

like me he

has a quickness

of thickening

snowflakes

in his 

hair





_____________________


Bob Arnold
Heaven Lake

Longhouse 2018