Monday, February 19, 2018

HEREDITARY ~








Small Difference





We bought

a jackknife

for our son

his first



I thought the

blade was sharp

you liked the

pretty handle








Autobiography




I stopped thinking

About my name today

When in the truck

Returning home with

My son after working

Together at a farm

Splitting wood

Picking kindling

Around the chopping

Stump, slinging manure

Onto the winter garden

And later hiking

High into the heather

Pasture, now in the

Truck with his gloves

Still on he sized it

Up by saying he didn’t 

Like the name Bob — it

Was too short, only three

Letters — and it sounded

Like a name half-city

Half-country






Suddenly Mississippi





he lost his

lucky rabbit’s

foot, green with

a key-chain in

Greenwood, MS

so returning to

find it wait-

ress brought

it to us on

a tray






Hereditary






I kid him

& he argues

with me which 

turns me to

argue with

him as he

begins to

kid me



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BOB ARNOLD
I'm In Love With You
Who Is In Love With Me
Longhouse 2012