This man, dying, he will be dead
soon, gone soon, the wind picked up and twisting in clothes-lines, the frost
coming but not yet, cold first, cold now, with dark birds perched and watching
the house, the square of his window, his last breathing blinks and their
colorless running, him running, one last time, one last loping track of blood
going through.
J. A. Tyler is author
of the forthcoming novella Someone,
Somewhere (Ghost Road Press, 2009) and the chapbooks The Girl in the Black Sweater (Trainwreck
Press, 2008) and Everyone In This Is
Either Dying Or Will Die Or Is Thinking Of Death (Achilles Chapbook Series,
2008). He is founding editor of mud
luscious/ml press and nominated
for a Pushcart. Visit aboutjatyler.blogspot.com.