OK, you are
a bird.
objects for a fog death by julie doxsee was out from black ocean pretty recently; it has 93 pages in 5 sections
subjects include lightning, magnets, wings (expensive wings), water, ghosts, secrets, knives, the number 13, rabbit costumes, moons, bullets, radios, hands, and suns. the diction is 'quirky' and 'cute,' sometimes dark
We sleep
on that voice as it kills us
the poem 'Lightbulb' includes the phrases 'a baby bunny,' 'my mitten,' 'a molehill,' and 'jack-o-lantern'; sometimes the book feels like a kind of fragmented, neo-surrealist children's book
most of the poems are in couplets but some poems have 'tercets' and other forms
like
I said I
will come
at you at
one of the wee hours
as I make light
saber noises
the book has a lot of wordplay including verbing nouns, nouning adjectives, adverbing adjectives, count nouning noncount nouns, and intransitive verbing transitive verbs
People elevator the upward
numbers
and
The higher quiet of me
walks through smoke
there are a lot of long sentences stretched over short stanzas; sometimes a poem is just one sentence. in 'The Solid Odd of Headlights,' one sentence 'ranges' the first 7+ lines of the poem
Six months later I
translated the swans' winter dance
from my window & blacked out
when the landlord vacuumed
electricity out with those cooled
versions of light & melted my reading
glasses upping the thermostat
2 degrees
it's sometimes difficult for me to picture things mentally because the surreal details are layered 3-4 times
here are three of the poem titles that i liked
A Bit of Couch
Secret Water
Our Child is a Vulture
here is info on the reading tour for this book (august + september 2010); page for ofafd on black ocean's website; a video of julie doxsee reading a poem from this book; a blog of mostly photography from julie doxsee; bio and other publications
you can read julie doxsee poems at tarpaulin sky, shampoo, la petite zine; many more available if you search her name in a search engine
