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Jordan Davis
Jordan Davis
Born in 1970, Jordan Davis is the author of a collection of poetry and many reviews and essays about poetry...
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On a Door  
by Jordan Davis

With practice I could fold a rose
Or a theory of prose or some treason

But what is to be got--a satire?
Expedience? the opera of laughter?

I know conviction from the convict,
The senator from February.



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Poem from Million Poem Journal, reprinted with permission of Faux Press Books
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