SERJEVAH DAVIS - POEMS

Serjevah Davis is a writer and University of West Florida graduate from Tampa, FL. Her poems have been featured in The Big Windows Review, Rigorous Magazine and Poesis Literary Journal. She currently resides in Minneapolis, MN pursuing various literature projects and hopes to publish poetry and fiction full-time.

​This Joyful Man of Night

​Mouth open
wide
 
He proudly displayed how
he held the stars and planets
between
his opal teeth
 
How galaxies
slicked across umber gums
cupped like Queen Butterflies
nestled
among the Valerians in June
 
How glittering rings
of smoke
carouseled over and around his tongue
 
And crackled
 
at the back of his
coruscating throat

The Vanishing
​

​the last watched
themselves multiply with infinite
complacency
 
their empire under microscope
of curious thought -
 
perhaps
 
that vast disillusionment revolves about
the hypothesis of existence -
 
Vanity
 
expressed
from life's beginning
 
 

The Awakening
​

​Who can withstand
the impassioned,
the complex –
 
a reading of heart nature
we've already covenant
between exile and redemption?
 
As Mountain
of people,
of temple,
of ingathering
 
Embodying which thunders
that sound
of history through clouds
 
The coming
 
A series of –
Followed by –
Periods of –
Leading to –
 
Forgiveness
 
and wrath