Real Side-winding around the half-cars though the man seeing me looking yells Don't look! I have seen the coat-covered passenger's arm. Real? Is it real? —I must keep going. It is real. As real as watching your neighbor's house burst into flames. How fast disaster consumes others. Shocking, our relief—I must keep going or run the risk of becoming real to someone else.
About the Author: 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 Verse Daily, 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.
Image Credit: Elihu Vedder “Study for “The Fates Gathering in the Stars”, 1884-1887. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
As It Ought To Be 