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      • LEAVING PATACARA
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      • HE MARKED MY BODY
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      • A MOMENTARY OBEDIENCE
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      • DHARMA RAIN
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      • EROS-TWO 34TH & 35TH
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      • BUDDHISM 101
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      • Ode to Blueberries
      • Morning Meditation
      • DON’T BE SATISFIED TOO SOON
      • Silence
      • Wanderers Welcome
      • ANAHATTA
      • What Both Names Mean
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      • Trane Ascending
      • There Is Something About Being An Episcopalian
      • VOICES
      • Language of Poetry
      • Advent
      • Rumi
      • A Mockingbird's Song
      • There Are Times
      • Sandburg & Monroe (The Visit 1961)
      • Whenever You Watch Me
      • The Monarch
      • Park Avenue
      • Storm Shadow
      • Śūnyatā - Emptiness is Form; Form is Emptiness
  • Poetry–In–Film
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    • Press Release - The Patron Saint of Cauliflower
    • Press Release - AMULET
    • Press Release – Deep Pockets
    • Nightbloom and Cenote
    • Dreamland Trash II
    • The Book of Trees – Press Release
    • PENIEL – Press Release
    • Press Release - Bearing the Cast
    • Press Release – NOW
    • Press Release - Hunger for Salt
    • Press Release – EROS
    • Press Release - DHARMA RAIN
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    • Press Release - When Angels Are Born >
      • Recordings from When Angels Are Born
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    • Press Release - COAT THIEF by Jeffrey Davis
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    • Press Release - Windward by Kevin McGrath
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    • Press Release - The Angel and the Heretic by Britt Posmer
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    • Press Release - Variations on a Theme of Desire
    • Press Release - Numinous
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    • GIVING GODHEAD
    • YOGA MASS
    • NOW
    • EROS
    • DWELLING
    • LIFE IN SUSPENSION
    • BEYOND ELSEWHERE
    • Dreaming My Animal Selves
    • Tiferet Talk Interviews
    • Six Weeks to Yehidah
    • sometimes you sense the difference
  • Guest Authors I
    • William Miller >
      • Maha ‘ulepu Arch
      • Made In China
      • Reading Cheese
    • Amy Barone
    • Peter Shefler >
      • The Japanese Red Maple I - The Seed
      • The Japanese Red Maple II - Fallen In The Frost
      • The Japanese Red Maple III - Seeking Shelter
    • Lois P. Jones and Peter Shefler
    • Aliki Barnstone - Poetry >
      • Alas
      • Take a Deep Breath
      • With God in the Morning
    • A Review - "Y" by Leslie Adrienne Miller
    • RJ Jeffreys - Down To The Boats - The Men Go
    • RJ Jeffreys - Down To The Sea - Alone
    • Donna Baier Stein - The Yellow Brick Road
    • Gayle J. Greenlea >
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      • Zero Gravity
      • Christmas in Newtown
      • Defibrillation
      • Gayle J. Greenlea - Chiaroscuro: Ode to Three Artists
      • Gayle J. Greenlea - Wonderland
    • Cindy Rinne >
      • Song
      • Airborne
      • Heaven Laughed
      • Contemplation of the Sea
      • Germinate
      • Intonation
    • Audrey Griffin >
      • Ode to the Dimmest Star
      • Ten
      • Lo
      • The Maze
    • Susan Rogers >
      • The Origin is One
      • Kuan Yin
      • Awakening
    • George Jisho Robertson - Poetry >
      • passing moments [deceptive cadences]
      • veils of Persephone definitions of Demeter mysteries of Orpheus
      • Who Goes There
      • 3 Poems
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      • Twenty-five and Breeze Rider
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      • A Voided Day
      • When the Nightingale no Longer Thrills our Veins
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      • Hoping Sartre Was Wrong
      • The Secret Language of Irises
      • Stinson Beach
      • Fisher of the Nile
    • Paula Dawn Lietz >
      • Fields of Yellow Fields of Gold
      • Mesmerized
      • Pixies and Petals
      • Spent Energy
      • Surrender
      • No Restrictions
      • The Saunter
      • The Surge
      • The Walk That Spoke
      • Your Existence
      • Your Name
    • Adele Kenny - Poetry
    • Erica Lehrer >
      • Alchemy At Eight O'Clock
      • The Rio Frio
      • 1558.4
    • Anna Yin - Poetry >
      • Our Feelings Are Like a House
      • Present Is Beyond
      • The Night Garden
      • The Robin
      • Falling into Pieces
      • Window and Mirror
    • Luke Storms
    • Tracy Cochran
    • Laurence Freeman - Meditation
    • Carl Sandburg - Poetry >
      • Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind
      • TO A CONTEMPORARY BUNKSHOOTER
    • W.S. Merwin - Yesterday
    • W.B. Yeats - Recordings
    • Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
    • Langston Hughes - Poetry for Black History Month
  • Through the Spoken Word
  • Paul F. Knitter - Interview
    • Jesus: The Way That is Open to Other Ways by theologian Paul F. Knitter
    • Paul F. Knitter - Short Essay
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  • Online Literary Publications
  • Events
    • Event - Feb. 27, 2016
    • December 5th ~ A Midwinter Tale
    • Hélène Cardona & John FitzGerald - Recording from October 5, 2013
  • In My Father's House Are Many Mansions
  • Our Directors
    • Ken Jones
    • Ron Starbuck
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Jeffrey Davis – Poet


3 Lagoons


 

I have travelled through three lagoons

and circled forty-eight moons

and still have not settled down.

 

Beneath the autumn light caught

in the pond’s face

a fish fins by and, curious, knocks on the canoe.

 

Something is always knocking.

Is this not enough?

If not this, what then?

 

In the distance a yellow leaf grounds down,

captured in a dusk beam.

Envy of radiant certitude.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeffrey Davis © 2016

Coat Thief

Saint Julian Press, Inc.

ISBN-13: 978-0-9965231-3-4


ISBN: 0-9965231-3-8


Library of Congress Control Number: 2016930829

 


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