Remedios Varo: Harmony, by Kenneth Pobo

Harmony, by Remedios Varos (Mexico, b. Spain) 1956.

 
Remedios Varo: Harmony

Many ceilings fly over 
oaks and maples.  

A form arrives in today’s mail.  
Check one: male or female.  
Why quibble?  

I open a red chest.    
Brave today, I pull out 
several former selves, 
all ragged, some dead,
this chest their coffin.  
I don’t know

my current self.  I often wear
a self for a season or two
before I bury it in the chest.

Harmony puts a kettle on.  
We drink tea
and feed the ceiling.

​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.