Accept It by Kenneth Pobo

By Shannon Lake in Wisconsin,

bulldozers clear the forest.  

As if someone I loved had died,

or worse, been killed.

A person, a human being, 

ordered this to be done. 

We’re supposed to accept it.  

Who accepts grief?

Death, wind blowing,

no branches

to stop it.

Kenneth Pobo has a new book out in May from Circling Rivers called Loplop in a Red City.  His work has appeared in: Colorado Review, Mudfish, Nimrod, The Fiddlehead, and elsewhere.