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Two Poems
by Julie
Doxsee
Some Souls Are Made For Swimming
Your shoulders
are apples
to bite, love,
to bite the smells of.
These rumbles & agonies
rumble & agonize
a man-shaped form as it
wrenches
divorce from the
stranger’s nap.
Her whole drunk body
on the portico steps.
Pulped
rice paper,
cigarillo kiss,
they rehearse half the boat crash
eleven more times:
1. breath stroke
2. cuddle
3. sing
about the green lights
below skin.
Inside The Shallows
Skull in the cradle of a
lap, a valentine arm
appears quietly in June.
Together on the table
in two identical base-
ments, the fevers of cold
fever sense lull.
Julie Doxsee's The Knife Grasses is forthcoming
from Octopus Books in Fall 2006. Meanwhile, she is a PhD candidate in
English & Creative Writing at the University of Denver whose recent
work appears or is forthcoming in The Bedazzler, Tarpaulin
Sky, LIT, Aufgabe, Retort Magazine,
42opus, Spork, Action, Yes, H_NGM_N, Slope, Eratio
Postmodern Poetry, Word For/Word, can we have our ball back, Elimae,
Coconut Poetry, Conduit, Typo, Fourteen Hills, Shampoo, and other
journals. |
