Chenango Street
Brenda Hay

walking
under streetlights

harshly shadowing his face
walking beside the deserted Street
hunched as if in a hurry hands stuffed in
his pockets

as he crosses the bridge he
hesitates for a second
maybe an hour
listening to the calm
the river washes somewhere
in the dark

too dark to see

ISBN 1-882983-78-5
31 pages/$9
Biography
Brenda Hay was born in Jamestown, New York, in 1953.
She grew up “between nowhere and somewhere else”
and has been writing since high school.
“I had the idea that giving thoughts a voice
would make them easier to understand.
It’s not actually true, but old habits die hard.”