Todd Davis writes of rural drug use, familial strife, and how teen boys support each other.
The Last Time My Mother Lay Down with My Father
Good poetry’s capacity to convey emotional intensity is exemplified in Todd Davis’s piece on the love of a wife for her husband in his last days.
A Sunday Walk with Father
Todd Davis draws tight parallels between the world of trees and the world of humans.
Most of What is Written is Simply Grief
This poem from Todd Davis is a prime example of the power of the unspoken, the understated.
Puberty
A day in the forest and a shared moment of wonderment bring a father and his teenaged son together.
At Buttermilk Falls
Todd Davis offers a powerful poem of listening, reflection, and the natural world.
Accident
Todd Davis offers a meditation on one man’s death and the stories we tell to gloss over ugly truths.
Long Meadow
Three generations of men populate Todd Davis’s poem about sons and grandfathers, a reflective piece on the circularity of past, present, and future.