‘TRAIN AND WINDOW’, ‘GAY AGENDA—WITH TRASH’ & ‘LASTS, DOESN’T LAST’

Genavieve Thums is a senior in high school. Her photography follows the season and shows how she feels from day to day through a moment in time. It helps her express her complicated feelings because she doesn't always know how to deal with her emotions.

TRAIN AND WINDOW

Sun at the window,
a gold train
chugging along, heading
for a depot. I stay
under the sheet
like the dead. The sun
aims for passengers
leaving through a
glass crack.

GAY AGENDA—WITH TRASH

You may not want to live
next door to us. We have
a gay agenda
which we’ve perfected—
it isn’t quiet. I spent
years being quiet. You may
see me do something
outrageous, like take
the trash out
on Thursday nights
or even weed when
it’s not too sunny. I have
been seen clipping
coupons. It’s radical,
this dangerous agenda,
two guys holding hands
and sitting on the porch.

LASTS, DOESN’T LAST

Lake Superior: wind
soldiers guard almost
impenetrable ice forts.
Winter thinks
it will stay forever
with good reason—
yet ice breaks up
like unhappy lovers.
Open water. Spring
writes her name
on every wave.

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) and Lilac And Sawdust (Meadowlark Press). Forthcoming from Fernwood Press is a book of poems called At The Window, Silence. His work has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, South Florida Poetry Journal, Amsterdam Quarterly, Nimrod, Mudfish, Hawaii Review, and elsewhere. @KenPobo