In just a few hours
I can walk the entire
Pacific Crest Trail
have a bacon and eggs
breakfast with my parents,
both of my sisters,
and my brother.
The coffee and buttered
toast are just right.
And I still have enough
time to ask a stranger
on a Montreal street
for help using public transit
to get to McGill University.
Ken Letko has published poems in California Quarterly, Earth’s Daughters, Lake Effect, Rattle, Spillway, and elsewhere. Flowstone Press released his book Bright Darkness in 2017 and his sixth chapbook Chopping Wood in the Moon Light in 2021. He lives in Northern California, where he enjoys gathering wood and juggling.
