G. Timothy Gordon

You

All night I dreamed you,
or think I did, color turned
black-and-white cool, fall,
you working our garden,
or so it seemed, lingering over
desert fern, balsam root
Asian transplant, lilac patch
never quite taken, bruised blue
rhubarb, until fall, on waking,
wore itself out, flora-cum-frost,
season never tough enough
to stay the course.

Timothy Gordon is the author of eight books. His work has been published in such journals as Agni, American Literary Review, Cincinnati Review, and New York Quarterly. He is the recipient of the RiverStone Poetry Prize, NEA & NEH Fellowships, and Pushcart nominations. His newest book, Empty Heaven/Empty Earth will be published October 2022. He divides lives between Southeast Asia and the Southwest Sonoran Desert Organ Mountains.