GARDENS WERE CONSIDERATIONS
linking
error and
error dangling
for
longer answers
today
I
hoping
to lie
lay
on
the sand for the afternoon
shaped
like a droopy spreading oak tree
plain
among the villagers
below is [one of two churches from which chants fan out]
the cat likes
only liver-flavored food
the
president threw her hat
but
the governor would have been more careful
and
here is my new question:
do
you dance with birds
to
sing answers
about
the summer
canopies
that
changed
the choice of nothing?
runoff
will decide portions of
a year below a coastline
still tied to the touched keel
on
board
bone
weapons
an
inch from the heart
pose
as perfect nerve
the
past
is transitive
its
object is voices
pick
out a sprout
minus
one gland
filled
with people:
she
became sad. they remain happy.
change
is a comparison almost
worth
the ship the
forest
decays
red
thumbnails
into error-weed where
she gives a special party
to correct the demons
I spoke easier questions earlier
between
the two, two traps
&
recall that we chose to imagine both a trophy
& the shape of a trophy
SOFT
TRUTHS IN AN ORCHARD
books
of lint to
open-close without
very
narrow new limbs
cold-sticking
the
rib & houndstooth
to
a foreign legend
waiting
to be its
very
own nightfall
nose
to nose with an
open-close
which buckles inward, the loose lamb
still
crowded by lambs.
THE WOMAN LOVED HER WOMAN TORNADO
no
more than her lip catches
rolled
back eyes
between
skin & silence,
a
sundial leaking the sun’s glow
conceals
the goatskin fold.
Julie
Doxsee
© Julie
Doxsee 2006
Julie
Doxsee holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
and is currently a PhD candidate in the poetry program at the
University of Denver. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming
in Eratio, Elimae, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Word For/word, Denver
Quarterly, the Colorado Review, Conduit, Typo, Borderlands: Texas
Poetry Review, Crudeoils, Double Room, GutCult, Versal, and other
journals.
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