(Pocket Poetry)
by Kenneth Pobo
(U.S.A)
Well, it’s a rock. I know
I’ll lose points
on the Lab test, but
the rock wants
no biography written
of its slowly eroding life.
My life erodes too.
I prefer a bendy world,
nothing rock solid,
elastic as a goose
neck curving around
a leaning reed.
Copyright © 2022 – Kenneth Pobo. All rights reserved.
About the Author
Kenneth Pobo
Kenneth Pobo (he/him) 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 Lilac And Sawdust (Meadowlark Press). His work has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Asheville Literary Review, Nimrod, Washington Square Review, Mudfish, Hawaii Review, and elsewhere.
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