Dreams by Jason Bredle

They are hunting God but we sleep so deeply

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Dreams

by Jason Bredle

All around us
they are hunting God
but we sleep so deeply
we discover the prints
in the morning
& it’s as if time
has become a crowd
gathering to watch us fail,
but in the forest
it’s enough to dream
of the possibilities
the way a child
dreams of fairies—
yet who are we to dream,
we are a group
of impatient falconers

Read our interview with Poet of the Week, Jason Bredle, wherein he discusses neurodivergence, encouraging subjective readings to allow for multiple interpretations of one poem & more. On publishing his debut collection with the University of Massachusetts Press, he says:

If you can bear it, don’t give up. It took 14 years to publish that collection and it wasn’t because I wasn’t trying.