Two Poems
Julie Doxsee

Worming the Soul from Enclosure to Honor

Inhabitants with fiction beflower its gray picnic

XYZ eats a tenth moon

& the harbor of sleep is saved

in the wind's bones.


The Royal Chimes Colliding

there is a pigeon in a glass box

whose two or three flaps

happen early.


a wing

not your own

beside

an umbrella


not your own


is little, the pitch

inside the skin of

quiet chimes


thrilled, shrillness



a helix


in the cooing silk.