GROUND COVER

KATE KOBOSKO

March dawned roaring before it went belly-up, docile on its way out. And when you started to trust the halcyon spring I sang out bold with my cloying story of breaking dirt. My clover head a red sky warning in the bluegrass. In this bed I am the noxious visitor glistening with dew, broadleafs grinning green. Are you primed for the long drawn fight? My thick stem and lateral roots against your gloved hand pulling.

KATE KOBOSKO earned her MFA in Poetry from Emerson College and has an undergraduate degree from Eckerd College. Her poetry has been published in Autofocus, Oakland Review, Reunion: The Dallas Review, and others. Originally from Maryland, she now lives in Charleston, South Carolina, where she teaches elementary school.