And Never Let

I know that we
worry needlessly
about disasters
and about one
or the other
of us dying,
but I decided
just after I woke up
that if you died
unexpectedly,
I would love you
anyway,
keep writing you
poems,
talk out loud
to you,
think about you
all the time
and never let
death win


-Jim DuBois
Jan 3, 2016

Revisions

Peace and longing

Peace and longing,
one in each hand.
How can this be?


-Jim DuBois
March 6, 2012

the same world

Brilliant clarity
in the sunlight,
sinking feeling
in my heart,
how are they
in the same world?


-Jim DuBois
March 6, 2012

The time I really wish I could fly

The time

I really wish

I could fly

is at the end

of these short

Fall days

when the last

bits of sunshine

are slowly climbing

the library walls, 

coloring the

tops of trees

and lighting up

the clouds like a painting. 

- Jim DuBois

Nov 13, 2015

The Secret Lives of Normal People

Daniel and the Spaghetti

Daniel and I
were so hungry -
him because the dining hall
    was closed already
and me because
    I was homeless
    and always hungry, -
so we cooked some spaghetti
    in the dorm lounge
But didn't have a drainer
    so tilted the pot
over the sink of dirty dishes
and yes, it fell in,
so we cooked another batch
    bu that fell in too,
    right in the backed-up sink
But we were so hungry
    we fished it out
    and ate it anyway,
even though
we didn't mean to.


-Jim DuBois
Sep 7, 2015