Monday, April 8, 2019

HEAVEN LAKE ( 28 ) ~








As I Was Told





For years I have worked

As a gardener and for years

I have stood by flower and

Vegetable beds with an owner

Who would like this planted

And this pulled out and only

Occasionally have I not done

As I was told like this morning

The wild violets off to them-

Selves and still beaded with

Last night’s rain come crowded

Up past witch grass which makes

Me think I’ll protect them

Until the end









All You Need To Know





All you need to know about

America now is —



all my old tools are with me

working daily



hammers, trowels, levels

saws, plumb-bobs, rakes



while all my new tools

are soon broken







Instructor






Teenage girls in

Shorts and blouses



Holding notebooks

Visiting us in spring



Rain and later standing

In my work room of



Books paintings gifts

And the students pivot



In place soaking up

Everything yet are



Dumbfounded and

Cannot stop looking at



One wood sculpture

Ample naked figure



Propped against

One window —



A nut-

Cracker —



I thought not to show

How her legs parted







My Kind Of Place





with the wet rag

clump at the cash



register, anyone can

clean the tables





____________________

Bob Arnold
Heaven Lake
Longhouse 2018