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