National Poetry Month : Jordan Davis,

 

from Free Throws

Get away from the gold city
and you feel naked
without your chain

“Naked, in chains”
does that excite you 

It’s ok to feel a feeling
and not know what it is 

and not act on it

* 

Then the sorrow
comes filling up the streets
and stays there 

everyone looking out the window
then closing the curtains
for good 

You get to the old city
and find a pensione
with large wooden shutters 

and a smell of cloves

*

A handmade feeling
Quiet, waiting;
a feeling you could lie in bed with
and not talk 

and not have to get up right away

*
 

I want the whole heart
to go flying
like a religious person
on a zipline.
 

*

 

 

New poems by Jordan Davis are forthcoming in Dream Boy Book Club, The Fortnightly Review, The Bayou Review, and Hanging Loose; a microchap will be published by sider0xylon later this year, and his first review in a long time will appear in American Book Review 46:4 (soon).