The Feast

A blackout poem.

-Jim DuBois

Hope and Dread

Hope
    and
        Dread,

Hope
    and
        Dread,

as I walk down the sidewalk
I last saw you on.


II –

I don’t know how to say it
and I don’t know how to not say it:
to believe it or deny it:

“Yes, ______”
“Yes, ______”
“Yes, ______”


-Jim DuBois
1997?

First Walk Back

First walk back
  from Florence,

March, spring

fragments, regrowth


-Jim DuBois
March 10, 2013

What My Daughter Will Learn From D&D

I dreamed
that someone
interviewed me
about
what my daughter
would learn from
playing D&D.

I told him
I didn't have
a daughter,
but I would
imagine...

"Well, to start with,
D&D was a product
of its times. It was
a cooperative game.
It couldn't be made
today.

When you are playing,
and solving problems
in the game,
you get to feel
intelligent,
and when you fail
a savings throw for
climbing an ice wall,
hopefully you will feel
brave but unlucky.

In the end,
you get to find out
who you really are,
or want to be.


-Jim DuBois
Feb 10, 2013