Bob Arnold: Forever

Cover of Bob Arnold's Forever

 

Two little beauties from Bob Arnold's new tiny little booklet, Forever.  The handmade paper cover, delightful photos, illustrations and fine poems comprise a production any small press maven might envy (and collector might covet). I don't see it mounted up on the Longhouse website  (oh, here it is)yet, so if you are interested, drop Bob a line at <poetry at sover dot net>, substituting @ for at, and . for dot.

The First Step To Independence

Breaking worse
what you try
to fix

Tobacco Road

what a corny
film

and how
I can't

forget the
old fella's

sadness

                                                       Bob Arnold









my eternal youth ornament--
just three cents
of emperor's pine

     Issa
     translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don

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Michael O'Brien and Eve Luckring: Wednesday Haiku, Week 61

Photo by Gordon Parks

Climbing mast to spot mackerel school, Gloucester, MA, June 1943

dusk -
coated in sand
the mackerel’s last thrust

 Michael O'Brien

 Photo by mimicry

salamanders lost to sun on the lips of a dream

                         Eve Luckring

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An interlude: the Gloucester fishermen conjure up Maximus himself, with a few under his belt and a thing or two to praise:





 And because sometimes the salamader does, indeed, dream:





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Finally, because it is an unusual week, moon on the rise, Issa has taken some time off and Master Bashō steps in:

Octopus traps - 
summer’s moonspun dreams, 
soon ended

Bashō

best,
Don

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