“a white moth arrives rising and falling
on the warm breeze, lingers on the headstone
then on my bare arm, clinging as if
searching for moist skin or the scent of me.“
Enjoy this audio recording of “White Moths Everywhere” by Cortney Davis from Vol. 32:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here.
Cortney Davis, a nurse practitioner, is the author of four poetry collections, most recently I Hear Their Voices Singing: Poems New & Selected. Her honors include an NEA Poetry Fellowship, three CT Commission on the Arts Poetry Grants, the Prairie Schooner Poetry Prize, and a Tillie Olsen Creative Writing Award. Cortney is poet laureate of Bethel, CT. www.cortneydavis.com.