Little Differences
I don’t know that much about furnaces
So I listen to Native
Native hasn’t read a book in twenty years
Nowhere
Strange to see —
A sofa abandoned
In the woods
Off a dirt road
By the river we hike
No one around for miles
We turn the sofa back
Onto its legs, sit down
Call the dog up with us
Go~Along
stars
bright
enough
light
snowshoe
trail the
woods all
night
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Bob Arnold hails from a long lineage of
lumbermen, loggers, and builders who settled in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, just south of the Green Mountains, in the 1700s. He began working as a builder in the 1960s and hasn’t stopped, having built homes and stone structures in his region of southern Vermont for over five decades.
His books On Stone, a builder’s notebook
and Sunswumthru A Building address much of this world, while By Heart, pages from a lost Vermont begins a storytelling which will connect with present day Yokel.
Since 1971 he has edited & published hundreds of journals, books and anthologies of other writers with his wife Susan. His books of poetry & prose have appeared almost every year since 1974. Bob also authors a blog : A Longhouse Birdhouse: surveying books, music, cinema and earth ways.
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Bob Arnold
Yokel
Longhouse
2011
