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Loki, by Kenneth Pobo

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Loki

A trickster, I dwell in surprise –
what do I care if you like me?
Half of me is truth. Half is lies.

Look closely and don't criticize.
Changing shape is my destiny.
A trickster, I dwell in surprise,

so don't trust what's before your eyes.
I appear, disappear quickly.
Half of me is truth. Half is lies.

You want to be what you despise,
yet you know you can't be this free.
A trickster, I dwell in surprise,

am most happy when in disguise.
Be a fish, a mare, he or she.
Half of me is truth. Half is lies –

like the darkness that dawn denies,
none can stopper my energy –
A trickster, I dwell in surprise.
Half of me is truth. Half is lies.

– Kenneth Pobo

Kenneth Pobo, 58, of Middletown has new chapbooks forthcoming from Eastern Point Press and Poet's Haven Press.  He teaches creative writing and English at Widener University.