Girl With Death Mask, by Kenneth Pobo

Girl With Death Mask, by Frida Kahlo (Mexico) 1938.

Girl With Skeleton Mask
    
She wears her death mask
the way I wear jeans.  
Some mornings
she’s in my mirror 
staring back.

I shoo her away.  
She won’t go,
starts to laugh.

Kenneth Pobo

Kenneth Pobo has an ekphrastic book from Circling Rivers called Loplop in a Red City.  His work has appeared or will appear in: North Dakota Quarterly, Summerset Review, Nimrod, Hawaii Review, and elsewhere.