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  • Home
  • About/Submissions
  • Masthead
  • Featured Poets Series
    • 3 poems by Chris Prewitt
    • 3 poems by Taylor Byas
    • 3 Poems by David Hanlon
    • 3 poems by Bailey Grey
  • Issues
    • Issue 1
    • Issue 1.5: Hozier-inspired
    • Issue 2
    • Issue 3: Recovery
    • Issue 3.5: Lana Del Rey
    • Special Summer Solstice Prose Issue
    • Issue 4.1
    • Issue 4.2
    • Still Standing
Today in the Woods

At our ankles, gayfeathers,
a message spring sends
on pink paper.
Impatient ferns still can’t
turn on summer’s engine.

You and I may only have
twenty or thirty more years.
We keep walking.
Away from or toward?

We stop.
Shannon Lake.
No boats.
Lapping.

Kenneth Pobo won the 2019 chapbook contest from the Poetry Society of Alabama for Your Place Or Mine. It will come out this year. His work has appeared in: Nimrod, Mudfish, North Dakota Quarterly, Sibling Rivalry Press’s anthology called The Queer South, and elsewhere.
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