I’m doing the dishes,
sink water grey as the sky—
one dish feels like the next.
Time, a plugged-up drain. I look
out the window and see—
a bluebird! A blue lake
with feathers. I drop
the damp towel on the counter
and head for the porch
for a closer view. The bird
perches on the flagpole
that never has a flag
unless the sky is a flag
which it is on some sunny days.
Off the bluebird goes,
toward the catalpa tree,
which takes him in,
its leafy door always open.
sink water grey as the sky—
one dish feels like the next.
Time, a plugged-up drain. I look
out the window and see—
a bluebird! A blue lake
with feathers. I drop
the damp towel on the counter
and head for the porch
for a closer view. The bird
perches on the flagpole
that never has a flag
unless the sky is a flag
which it is on some sunny days.
Off the bluebird goes,
toward the catalpa tree,
which takes him in,
its leafy door always open.
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), Lavender Fire, Lavender Rose (BrickHouse Books), and Gold Bracelet in a Cave: Aunt Stokesia (Ethel Press).