Hollyhock blossoms
by our neighbor’s driveway—
I tell myself I’ll be ready
next year
to plant again,
red portulaca,
fazzling white nicotianas.
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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).Opening is forthcoming from Rectos Y Versos Editions. In addition to poetry, he also writes fiction and essays.For the past thirty-plus years he taught at Widener University in Pennsylvania and retired in 2020.
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