Straightforward Titles for Recurring Dreams

Last Day at Camp
Crowded Apartment
Leaving the Party
Down a Long River
Strange Place to Sleep
Dream Roads
Empty Department Store that is Sometimes a Grocery Store
Flying out the Window
Those Extra Rooms I Never Knew Were There
What's Wrong with the Bathroom?
Giant Bathroom with the Running Showers


-Jim DuBois
Dec 26, 2015

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