davis,devin

DEVIN DAVIS

full animal

some fuzzy day,
they may be able
to sew on you
a new button;

hem a felt tongue
in the ha of your wool.

but, every repair
done, for
each color
-safe
bleaching;

whether the hugged
stuffing bunches up a head
or bends in unsteady legs,

we sag; & can't
become much
younger.

grown

the celebration
of green sings
praise; raises
and lowers
its agreeable
yellow & red
-orange voice;

exalts fall,
applauds
a gust.

burn over bird

winter is still
twenty days off.

autumn has fallen
to hazel; a thought

of the gold & orange
that august and september
were; kicked in pumpkin eeth.

through

you, ghost moon—
for most of the thin blue morning
—were diminishing;
kyphotic, after
a premature
spring night.

detached

he carries her--skin, doubled
like an old grocery sack; &
the milk moustache is leaving
rings, from the lips of a fuss.

double-entendre

woman is flesh;
and a man bone.
egg-shaped, her womb;
sperm-supplied, his spine.

Called "ink (or inc.)" in a seaside vision, Devin Davis (aka townee) has written well-over 2,000 poems and has published 11 chapbooks as part of his divan. After serving a term in the us army as a propagandist, davis earned a ba in journalism and history from CSUS. He is employed by ups and the state of California. His work has appeared in print on both coasts of North America, in Canada, and at various sites on-line. He has been a featured poet at tower books, and barnes and noble books. He has read on the north steps of the capitol in his hometown of Sacramento. Davis is also the author of "Segment," a children's story, which may be found at locust magazine. He has three daughters. email: Devin.Davis@cdva.ca.gov