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.