Joshua Davis | Reversal Spells in Blue and Black [ReBound Series]

Reversal Spells in Blue and Black. Poems by Joshua Davis. Number 13 in our ReBound Series, this chapbook is a reissue of Josh’s 2022 Summer Kitchen title. We are delighted to offer these poems to a wider readership.

Publication:  January 19, 2024 [100 copies]
21 pages
ISBN 978-1-960693-14-3
$ 12.00

A former John and Renee Grisham fellow, Joshua Davis holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi, an MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine, and an MA from Pittsburg State University. He is the coauthor, with Allison Blevins, of Chorus for the Kill (Seven Kitchens Press, 2022) and fiery poppies bruising their own throats (Glass Lyre, 2023). Recent poems have appeared in The Poetry Distillery, The Museum of Americana, and The Midwest Quarterly. He is a doctoral candidate in American Literature at Ohio University, and he lives near Tampa.

Needlework

When I visit the moon in her cave,
she hands me a heap of white cloth
stretched on a hoop. As I sew,

stitch after stitch starts to bleed,
so I tear out my heart at each X.
Do it again, says the moon.

[ Our thanks to Cabildo Quarterly for first publishing this poem. ]