Jim Davis, US

 

Haiku   bluejay on a limb perches, calls, listens, lifts— a child prays to his iPhone     wind shakes the magnolia petals fall an aphid swims in the tea     February 15 two cigarette butts floating in a bottle of wine     empty beer cans after a long winter, strung together anything can be windchimes     on the pond, a woodduck lands, quacks at the bobbing duck made of wood near the briar     About Jim Davis, US   Jim Davis is a graduate of Knox College and now lives, writes, and paints in Chicago. Jim edits the North Chicago Review, his work has appeared in After Hours, Blue Mesa Review, Poetry Quarterly, Seneca Review, Whitefish Review, and Contemporary American Voices, among others. Frogpond, Haiku Journal, Three Line Poetry, and Boston Literary Magazine, among others. Jim Davis Poetry This is Jim Davis' first appearance in Sketchbook.