Gazans starve,
Ukrainians too—
bodies heap
(where to put them?).
News drizzles

from my computer,
memes and movie stars.
I come a-
part in
electric currents,
who am I,

an icycle
on a gutter,
sun coming out.

…

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), Lilac And Sawdust (Meadowlark Press) and Gold Bracelet in a Cave: Aunt Stokesia (Ethel Press). His work has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Asheville Literary Review, Nimrod, Mudfish, Hawaii Review, and elsewhere.