STACY SZYMASZEK
Stacy Szymaszek is the author of Emptied of All Ships (Litmus Press) and is the director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church (New York City).
a guy launched an insult
out his car window
and peeled off into
the fireworks show
I was holding the camera
his car was eaten by
a pink chrysanthemum
I tore the group photos
into bits of confetti
for a gay politician
(from "Commune of S")
JULIE DOXSEE
Julie Doxsee's Fog Quartets is now available from horse less press. She is the author of several poetry chapbooks, and a book, Undersleep (Octopus Books, Winter 2007/2008). She lives here and here.
ORPHANS by Julie Doxsee
My face so haloed by charred
orphans you have never
seen. When we arrest our
mouths, instant half-hearts
fizzle from each eye. I take
a picture of you with my
throat. Years hatch a version
never touched by light
that will make it real. Same
goes for the nest I park you in
& your arm shaped as if slung
over logs. I don't know
whether to freeze or crawl
into the picture it becomes.
Julie Doxsee © 2007
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