Matt Dennison

Snap Shot

The instant before
the skin of the plane’s

belly is roughly
kissed away by

stiff mountain lips
does exist:

arm length
hand span
finger width—

You do the math.
I’ve looked out

the window —
my work is

done.

Matt Dennison’s poetry has appeared in Verse Daily, Rattle, Bayou Magazine, Redivider, and Cider Press Review, among others. His fiction has appeared in ShortStory Substack, THEMA, GUD, The Blue Crow (Aus), Prole (UK), The Wondrous Real, and is forthcoming in Story Unlikely.