Dindi and What Lies Ahead
By Ken Pobo

I become a famous singer who
marries a guy named Wade—
we wade into love’s swamp

where mosquitoes turn in their stingers
so we have a great honeymoon
a wet-nosed sun leaking
heat down on our shoulders
before we to return to the real

world where I perform for thinning crowds
Wade works in a Wal-Mart
or maybe on Wall Street
neighbors in this dream
place bring over spaghetti

casseroles and peach cobblers
we all ask God for his blessings
it’s humid Delilah the dog pants
and bites Aunt Gwen on her stretch
pants she says OUCH we laugh

fifty years dart by
like a mouse hunting her hole
Wade dies I die peach cobblers
pile up on our counters
a weepy young singer gets up

to sing one of my old hits
the cemetery takes us in
strays needing feeding.

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