Twenty years old,
sitting on the sidewalk
in front of City Lights Bookstore
after many days of Greyhound and train,
an oldish-even-then man in that beard and cap
said, "We don't open 'till ten," as he stepped past me
and closed the door. And I waited a while but eventually left.
What's a journey of two thousand miles when hunger is everywhere?
Matt Dennison is the author of Kind Surgery, from Urtica Press (Fr.) His work has appeared in Rattle, Bayou
Magazine, Redivider, Natural Bridge, The Spoon River Poetry Review and Cider Press
Review, among others. He has also made short films with Michael
Dickes, Swoon, Marie
Craven and Jutta Pryor.
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