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Failure



For the life of me
I cannot capture

the haiku of my
pear tree and my

pecan tree finally
touching limbs

after twenty years
of growth –

superior lovers,
patient, knowing,

they reject my prying,
reductionist mind












Matt Dennison is the author of Kind Surgery, from Urtica Press (Fr.) and Waiting for Better, from Main Street Rag Press. His work has appeared in Rattle, Bayou Magazine, Redivider, Natural Bridge, and The Spoon River Poetry Review, among others. He has also made short films with Michael Dickes, Swoon, Marie Craven and Jutta Pryor.

You can see more of his work in 4.3



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