Poetry by townee

 

marquetry

your uppers were
comfortable tongues

from the lanes
& country club;

braid string, laced
--soft as a ball glove.

 

 

slope

a sad, flat, red fore-

head; mad at having to bend

his last nine-irons

... forty-odd degrees.

1 is long, not often used;

derogatory.

 

elicit

midget

hotel-

detective

standing

on a chair

hanging

himself

from a vent-

window, above

the utility room

number.

his last sight

of some black prostitute,

hot as a pizza-delivery;

slapping

bellman.

a key is suspended,

in slow motion.

 

 

About the Author

news ... the sacramento anthology: 100 poems will be used as a text book for grades 7 through 12 throughout the the city. we're putting together a companion text/study guide for instructors.

elicit and slope are pieces written for the pilot hill collection showing at the crocker museum's 2nd annual poetry & art night.

By 1997, as devin wayne davis completed his ba in journalism/history, he realized a life-long hobby had become the primary source of his education. known also by his pen name townee, davis has written well-over 2, 000 poems. his poetry is included in the sacramento anthology: 100 poems, sanskrit, and poetry depth quarterly and dwan; pieces appear on various electronic sites like word salad, pierian springs, kota press, stirring, locust magazine, octavo, kinte space, la petite zine, and pig iron malt. davis writes because he was called "ink" in a vision. davis works for ups and the state of california; shares a downtown sacramento apartment with a gifted woman, susan kim, and they are expecting a daughter in august. he has two others, kate and lake davis. davis served a term in the u.s. army, visiting spain, germany, switzerland, and france. he has twice hiked mt. whitney.