At Last

After weeks of snow,
under rotting leaves, a
crocus,
showing yellow!
Spring
takes me down-
we wrestle,
a sparrow in the feeder,
plumping up,
flying off.

 


Kenneth Pobo’s new book of poems, Introductions, just appeared from Pearl’s Book’em Press. His poems, essays and stories appear in or are accepted by: Queen’s Quarterly, Mid-America Review, Rattle, Timber Creek Review, Nimrod, Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Heaven Bone, Hawaii Review, Colorado Review, the Fiddlehead, Apalachee Quarterly, and elsewhere.Kenneth Pobo’s new book of poems, Introductions, just appeared from Pearl’s Book’em Press. His poems, essays and stories appear in or are accepted by: Queen’s Quarterly, Mid-America Review, Rattle, Timber Creek Review, Nimrod, Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Heaven Bone, Hawaii Review, Colorado Review, the Fiddlehead, Apalachee Quarterly, and elsewhere.