John Paul Davis

We have to feature the great "Bicycling Home at Dusk I Closed My Eyes & Let Go & Saw the Rabbits" by John Paul Davis in Four Way Review, issue 5, Spring 2014. It's got a great sense of American Modernism and beat sensibilities. I like the 'modern-Whitman' feeling. The opening is especially great, here's an excerpt:

The headwind runs cool fingers
through my hair. The opal

of rain clouds & the treeline
lit up like the eyes of a woman

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