By Kenneth Pobo
A yellow orchid
just blooming, noise
from cars and mowers
at the window
which I shut tight,
a quiet
that calls me
to come closer
and sing softly.

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, 2015), Loplop in a Red City (Circling Rivers, 2020), and most recently, At the Window, Silence (Fernwood Press, 2025). His work has appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Amsterdam Quarterly, Nimrod, Mudfish, Hawaii Review, and elsewhere.