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