Fuller Park

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dead raven like a dropped drugstore umbrella 

a tree with a dying top

look I get it

I’ve lost the tenderest parts of myself 


didn’t life feel thinner   

less believable like I could pass between things 

past lives & future genders

the feeling I have been here before


now it (life) is a stone wall

built to keep something inside

a hallway or an enormous sloppy 

parking lot 


the Christmas Eve overdose outside Safeway

an EMT luffing the blue fleece blanket

until it covers the sidewalk 

the sun shuddering as all the geese go up at once

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Gion Davis is a queer poet from northern New Mexico where she grew up on a sheep ranch. Her poetry has been featured in Wax Nine Journal, SELFFUCK, and others. She has received the Best New Poets of 2018 Prize selected by Ocean Vuong. She is the editor of Rhinestone Magazine and her chapbook Love & Fear & Glamour was published in 2019. She graduated with her MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2019 and currently lives in Denver, Colorado. Gion can be found on Instagram @starkstateofmind and on Twitter @gheeontoast.

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