No tongue may shame you as you fall,
No heavens shake your brain wreath.
Stand the length of the house:
Flourish your wink,
Pirate a winter,
Try an idol but scissor
No precious minutes.
My saucy bark,
Torment me graciously
With your vest
And sportive blood—
My heart is a hunted software—
A death for the poem wolf.
Julia Wohlstetter’s work has appeared in Metatron, Bodega Magazine, The SILO, and The Chapess Zine. She is a graduate of The Independent Publishing Resource Center’s Poetry Program and holds a BA in French and Photography from Bennington College. She is the author of the chapbook “Please and Please”. She lives in Portland, OR.
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