Kenneth Pobo

What Happens at 6:43 PM Sometimes.

Steve and Aunt Stokesia
understand everything.
Not everything.
Everything is never
fully understood.

Clarity opens up
like an orange.

They sense that
they’ll be better friends,
no words. Sometimes
speaking is a baseball
speeding toward
your head.

Silence,
a porch thefted
by fireflies.

Kenneth Pobo has a new book out called Dindi Expecting Snow (Duck Lake Books). His work is forthcoming in: North Dakota Quarterly, Comstock Review, American Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. He teaches English and creative writing at Widener University in Pennsylvania.