Saint Julian Press

Jeffrey Davis – Poet

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Darkness, My Wise Little Brother

 

When darkness appears

outside your kitchen window

this winter bring him in

offer him a chipped cup of tea

and bring him so close

you can feel beneath

his thick coat

that hidden sorrow

known well by the nightingale

the gray wolf and other creatures

intimate with the skin of night

 

Hold him,

and he will tell you stories

of blind men’s dreams and groundhogs’ beds

of forgotten soldiers’ songs

and the quiet wind that sneaks

through widows’ doors

and then he will without shame

beg to ride your back into light

 

When you’ve fallen asleep

beside the dreaming fire

he will slip out the back,

the redolent scent of spring left

in his sneaker prints

 

 

 

 

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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