We Dream The Dreams Dreaming Us

Brian Tierney

You say we should wait— 

It must have snowed all night or season,  

we don’t seem to know  

and there isn’t a clock; 

I say then  

we should  

wait, I  

trust you. 

The white page is blank outside;  

we haven’t heard in days. 

There is not enough time for a whole new plot. 

Inside, the wax dilates  

wide around the candle.

We sit in the dark

and wait

and are separate,

but looking at each other—

Copyright © 2022 by Brian Tierney. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on March 31, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets.