Phoebe Wayne is the author of two chapbooks: The Sleep Volumes from dancing girl press, and Lovejoy from c_L press. She is also the author of an art/poetry collaboration in book form called Aa (with artist Kerri Rosenstein), and poems published or forthcoming in journals such as Yew, Horse Less Review, and Trickhouse. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family, and works as a librarian.
FROM THE SLEEP VOLUMES
Too much too loud, too soft and facing page
I cross from a civic paragraph
And there’s our young friend up high
A volume of language brushing the blue air
Around his face his feathered mouth
The door closes, it’s all chimes and wet road
Sounds, close in and block-mined wood floor
And opens again to this bench holding up
The day and the people absorbing the cold
From the city, pulling endless white breath
I take hands and draw the boy
Articulated from the cloud-frame
To the murmur of brick and text clatter
We fold and unfold with the weather