by Kenneth Pobo
Even now “Hot Fun in the Summertime”
by Sly and the Family Stone takes me
back to early whiffs of desire, a climb
out the window to meet my friend to be
naked together in a prairie that
became a golf course years later, hot fun
and 7-Up, touches, a ball and bat,
both of us too scared to tell anyone.
Kenneth Pobo 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 Uneven Steven (Assure Press). Opening is forthcoming from Rectos Y Versos Editions. Lavender Fire, Lavender Rose is
forthcoming from Brick/House Books.
