Aaron Tieger

Time off

Summer bug
window bee
screen

I’m a high
wire bird
in dark

trees
times
skies

               between
here
there

snowflowers
cover roadside
fields

sun downs
lights
halo

smoketrees
lighter dark
trick cross

on a tight turn
certain bright
yellow fate

speed zone down

into town

All morning dreams
wrong upon waking
fade into rain
                       ocean
                               cities
& other dreams writing
down dreams kissed
by a poet TYPO
has a van & this
city is weird                  St.
Louis w/red
light zone & coast
of roaring ocean

big doings

many friends
chasing stills
from a film

Empty bed
embedded
memory
not so
strange
but for
the cats

Secret donut

black sky

of a dozen stars

black creek

frozen despite

what lives be

for

within

                           after

the sampling’s over
what remains
after the hook
gets pulled

sunshine and diamonds

                       take a beautiful thing
                       and call it black

In Aries now
spring shoots
up its shoots

open windows
of an evening
wind slowly
car quickly
                           throughout
Collegetown Asian
girls litter
in the slow sun

Errol Garner

Old guy dancing
in bookstore aisle

we’re from the same
place a road
connects in space
& those towns
in time

Time off

a long time out
here w/no
word
from you there O
I’ve done it again

days of plans
days of work
days of sweat
days
and days go on

longer

than I’ve known

dreams of death
dreams of spies
dreams of friends
dreams of teeth
dreams of television
dreams of dragons
dreams of no dragons

face growing faster
hair getting longer
cats
shedding up
a storm

coming

any day