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  • Heat Wave
  • Julie Fay (bio)

The canicule is out the window, a wolf in wolf's clothing, white, biting. I spend my days adjusting myself, shut off from the rest of the world, deft at pulling metal shutters tight, hiding from the canicule out the window, wolf heat, dog days' tense refrain. Bereft. You left me here with this abiding – I spend my days adjusting myself [End Page 175] against the heart, the outside world, wolfing down solitude, crying. Hiding. The canicule is out the window, wolf. I brew tisanes, sage for bouf- fées de chaleur; chamomile soothes eyes. I spend my days adjusting my grief that has become a tank I must rough ride through the desert of lying times. The canicule is out the window, wolf. I spend my days adjusting my grief.

Julie Fay

Julie Fay’s latest poetry collection, Blue Scorpion, is forthcoming from Truman State University Press, and she is a 2004–2005 Senior Fulbright Researcher/Lecturer in Montpellier, France.

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