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Author: DAVIS, JORDAN
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Davis, Jordan    Poet's Biography
52 poems available by this author


:THREE POEMS ON DEMAND: TURTLES GENERATE POEMS    Poem Text    
Subject(s): Turtles; Writing & Writers; Tortoises


A BOAT    Poem Text    
First Line: When I am sitting at my desk and I have feelings
Subject(s): Boats


A BROTHER ON THE BALTIC        Recitation by Author


ALMOST NAMED HORACE        Recitation by Author
Subject(s): Names; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery


AMBER ALERT    Poem Text    
First Line: Having a child changes you. For example,
Subject(s): Children; Motion Pictures; Steven Spielberg (b. 1946); Childhood; Movies; Cinema


AMUSE-BOUCHE    Poem Text    
First Line: I miss the moshpit pushed to the side of the bed.
Subject(s): Anxiety


ARE YOU TO BE MY NAMIBIA?       
First Line: Or %therapeutic spaceship tantrums getting it
Last Line: New hours with it, I want its finish


BANK HOLIDAY    Poem Text    


BLOG POEM        Recitation by Author


BLUE COAL        Recitation by Author


BY THE RUINS       
First Line: Desperate beverage centers
Last Line: That is a mysterious thing


CHANTING MONOTONOUSLY        Recitation by Author


COMING SOON    Poem Text    
First Line: I knock on the door as I turn my key


COPPER BEECH       
First Line: The plaster needs fixing
Last Line: Branches of a copper beech


DEEP CHERRY       
First Line: Surgeon dynastic gold point
Last Line: Impossible music deep cherry


DISTANCE LEARNING        Recitation by Author


DYING TO       
First Line: My old love ripped off of me like an apple
Last Line: Blown open by the harbor


EACH I CHING GOES FISH       
First Line: Think, act. Think think, act
Last Line: The moon is melting %on the tree


FICTION    Poem Text    
First Line: I never touch the stuff.


GOOGLE POEMS        Recitation by Author


HERO AND LEANDER    Poem Text    
First Line: Yet in that silver age


HIDDEN POEM       
First Line: In the window as a shade as a blinder on a horse of porcelain
Last Line: Along the guard rail in a filling as the house in you ear


HOW ARE YOU I AM FINE        Recitation by Author


IRA WILL NOT BE ATTENDING THE MEETING    Poem Text     Recitation by Author
First Line: When working on a small scale
Subject(s): Corporate Life


JAZZ AS A WAY OF LIFE        Recitation by Author


LITTLE GOLD BOOK       
First Line: Up off ground to the left
Last Line: When bitter gold is there


LOAN       
First Line: If after one minute you have not given me my floating tea car
Last Line: For the sake of the face


LONG PAUSES BETWEEN CAKES       
First Line: I'm not sensitive
Last Line: It is a book of verse


LOOK DOWN    Poem Text    
First Line: The spark off the boot


LOOKING       
First Line: A cerebration, and the kodiak
Last Line: To decide what goes where on this lacquered stage


MOSTLY READ THE LUNA MOTH    Poem Text    
First Line: The savor of mango is unlike


NARRAGANSETT        Recitation by Author


ON A DOOR    Poem Text    
First Line: With practice I could fold a rose


OTTERS    Poem Text    
First Line: So much of poetry
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


POEM       
First Line: When the song's called 'song'
Last Line: Let me pour you a glass of milk, hey!


RELAXING POEMS        Recitation by Author


RESEARCH INTO JULY    Poem Text    
First Line: A barrel rolls on the roof


TELEKINESIS       
First Line: Growing up I %used to think
Last Line: How it is with you %sometimes


TEXT MESSAGES    Poem Text    
First Line: A wave of love for you just knocked me off my chair
Subject(s): Text Messaging


THE FACILITY FINDER    Poem Text    
First Line: I was pleased to discover america.


THE IDEA OF THEORY    Poem Text    
First Line: What fear did your smear


THE MPEMBA EFFECT    Poem Text    
First Line: In a world
Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes


THE RANDOM WALK ENSEMBLE    Poem Text    
First Line: When you fall in the milk keep kicking


THREE POEMS ON DEMAND: PICTURES OF BUGS BUNNY DRESSED LIKE A THUG    Poem Text    
First Line: What drove me to draw this picture
Subject(s): Pictures


THREE POEMS ON DEMAND: POEM FOR A SIXTH WEDDING    Poem Text    
First Line: You know a lot better than I do


TOOTHPASTE KIDS SUNBURN    Poem Text    
First Line: I tell you I will not make any more raids
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


TOURIST AND THE TSARIST       
First Line: Sunday morning %I get up early
Last Line: Chances for happiness? %am I?


WHEN I WAS THE SUBJECT    Poem Text    
First Line: How we or anything exists
Last Line: Points sticking out
Subject(s): Chaos; Imagination; Fancy


WHEN I WAS THE SUBJECT    Poem Text     Recitation by Author
First Line: How we or anything exists
Subject(s): Chaos; Imagination; Fancy


WHEN I WAS THE SUBJECT       
First Line: How we or anything exists
Last Line: Without the sharp %points sticking out
Subject(s): Chaos; Imagination


WINTER MAGAZINE, SELS       
First Line: Here is a sample of what I mean
Last Line: To the purple light at the top %of the world trade center


WITH MY BACK TO CITY HALL, ON YOM KIPPUR    Poem Text    
First Line: The gnats love the highway dividers,
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple