The light that lifts the day has fallen on beebrush, and the ghost
of God, which smells so much like these pale flowers bees cross over,
is everywhere in the air. The stars disappear one by one, and once again
we are blind to what anchors the body: peeling bark of the madrona tree,
thorn of honey mesquite, the purple dust of cenizo settling in dry basins,
as the sky opens to another shade of blue and the sun to another shade of white.
Todd Davis is the author of four books of poems-The Least of These (Michigan State University Press, 2010); Household of Water, Moon, and Snow: The Thoreau Poems (Seven Kitchen's Press, 2010); Some Heaven (Michigan State University Press, 2007); and Ripe (Bottom Dog Press, 2002). He edited the nonfiction collection, Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball (Michigan State University Press, 2012) and co-edited Making Poems: 40 Poems with Commentary by the Poets (State University of New York Press, 2010). He teaches creative writing and environmental studies at Penn State University's Altoona College.
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