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    Timothy Gager is the author five books of short fiction and poetry. He hosts the Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts every month and is the co-founder of Somerville News Writers Festival.
    His short stories have appeared in Word Riot, 55 Word, The Binnacle, Scene Boston, Thieve's Jargon, Zygote in My Coffee, Slurve, Poor Mojo's Almanac, VerbSap, and many other journals.


timothy gager timothy@timothygager.com

Before Dawn

outside your window
sailboats rock and nod,

off to sleep within
the arms of the sea

a breeze tonight
soft as bellows fills

your chest which deflates, slumps
against the edge of your desk,

your head, an anchor buried
in a heavy bed of sand

till early morning, you wake
as the day drifts in

copyright 2008 Timothy Gager

Even if There Isn't Any Rain

moisture hangs from the tips
of leaves,
when it is cold
a blanket is huddled
at the foot
of the bed
at a place where it
cannot be held
accountable against myself
to the long
sounds of silence
bursting all voids,
a droplet falls

copyright 2008 Timothy Gager