poetry by kenneth pobo

CHILD WITH DOLL

Painting by August Macke, 1911

Another girl made you a home,    then another.  You eat dust    in an attic.  Kids love you    completely--but briefly.  

You make friends    with evening light    seizing a window—    it knows your name.     You have a mind.     Sometimes it can    control the wind.  

You breathe diamonds. 

BATHERS

Painting by Erich Heckel

Naked together,    they jump   into the water,    revisit a womb.     Bodies, sometimes    broken or old,    the curve    of an ass    the curve    of the Earth.


Kenneth Pobo is the author of twenty-one chapbooks and nine full-length collections.  Recent books include Bend of Quiet (Blue Light Press), Loplop in a Red City (Circling Rivers), and Uneven Steven (Assure Press). His work has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Nimrod, Mudfish, Hawaii Review, and elsewhere.


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