Written ‘In Synergy’ with “Green” by Jeff Muzerolle
You’re deep green, spring
with green feathers landing
on the roof, the green grass that
I did summersaults on in 1966
when I was terribly green,
eleven years old, and
my world had green hints
around the edge. When I
won the contest for my rendition
of “Green Tambourine” at
the county fair, you said you were
green with envy. Is envy green?
It’s more an upchucked bile.
I’ve been green like Kermit
and he’s right, it’s not easy,
especially when I’m blue. Or red,
when anger flames from my eyes.
Today I’ll try to be a green
corn stalk behind the garage,
thinking this will be the year
when I finally produce corn.
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) 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.
