"Untitled", by Ira Joel Haber. Visual collaboration with poet, Paul Dickey for the poem "This Is How We Dream"

"Untitled", by Ira Joel Haber. Visual collaboration with poet, Paul Dickey for the poem "This Is How We Dream"

 
 

THIS IS HOW WE DREAM

PAUL DICKEY


Two beers into Saturday morning, two guys,
heads on the metal pillows of a truck bed –
gazing at stars too far from town to drive to, 
REMs deep in our brains, every 90 minutes 
clicking on how it might taste to French kiss 
a day job with the big bucks in the city.
We’d be damned if we’ll give up a third 
of our lives to nothingness as do old men
in the square who say they do not dream. 
We say they do not remember. But not us. 
Never do we not exist. Every 90 minutes, 
we wonder what it would be like to do 
something other than lie here on cold steel –
do it with body painted babes torn from 
the new magazine, hitchhiking on the back 
of some star to a new town, or to the city. 

 
 
 

Paul Dickey’s first book of poetry, They Say This is How Death Came Into the World was published by Mayapple Press in January, 2011. A second book, Wires Over the Homeplace, was published by Pinyon Publishing in October, 2013.

Ira Joel Haber is a sculptor, painter, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum & the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.