I’M MISTING
the orchids, exquisite but they lack
warm personalities. Oh,
it has to be just the way
I like it, the cattleya says. No,
the way I like it, the dendrobium says.
Loki flops in the Lazy Boy. Krishna
fixes a pot of tea. Athena shaves
her legs in my shower. I’d prefer
the gods to buzz off. Some get crabby,
prefer to futz with us than
each other—sometimes I don’t
believe in orchids or gods,
yet there they are, demanding,
sometimes beautiful.
KENNETH POBO has a new online chapbook called Fitting Parts published by Philistine Press. In December 2009, Main Street Rag published his chapbook called Trina and the Sky.
