For Arthur Miller

Arthur Arthur
Did you ever think
on your thought-letting walks across
          the Brooklyn bridge
that one day you'd be accused of harboring
          communist sympathies
sharing life with Marilyn Monroe
or commiserating with Clark Gable in Nevada
on the set of one of the greatest films to hit the screen
and did you know then that you were a misfit too

But everything that you stepped into
          seemed to fit regardless
and everything that faced you you took on
then carried on naturally
like the trees you planted in Connecticut
that have grown to be sixty feet tall
and you are in my mind just as rooted

Arthur Arthur
when you look back as you must do
of all the lives that you've created
is it Roslyn who waves most lovingly and full of pride
back at you