Recenter Press
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    • Rest of US by Richard Hamilton
    • evening primroses by Gabby Loomis-Amrhein
    • Profit | Prophet by Patrick Blagrave
    • To Hold Your Moss-Covered Heart by Schuyler Peck
    • The Good House & The Bad House by Doe Parker
    • And Still To Sleep by Terra Oliveira
    • Processes: A Meditation by Terra Oliveira
    • An Old Blue Light by Terra Oliveira
  • Journal
    • Issue Four: Fall 2020
    • Issue Three: Spring 2020
    • Issue Two: Fall 2019
    • Issue One: Spring 2019
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Standing Rock

BY JOHN DAVIS.


What will coyotes do without
water—howl while crude fracking
flows under the river, spills
into back eddies, swills, singes

the creeks? How will the sturgeon
armored with bony plates, swim
in the black mass? How will white
bass fight the current and fill
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themselves with plankton and fleas
when now bees above basins
drown as armored trucks grind gears
and the rubber bullets sting?

John Davis is the author of two collections, Gigs and The Reservist. His work has appeared recently in DMQ Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, One and Rio Grande Review. He moonlights in blues and rock and roll bands.
  • About
  • Books
    • Rest of US by Richard Hamilton
    • evening primroses by Gabby Loomis-Amrhein
    • Profit | Prophet by Patrick Blagrave
    • To Hold Your Moss-Covered Heart by Schuyler Peck
    • The Good House & The Bad House by Doe Parker
    • And Still To Sleep by Terra Oliveira
    • Processes: A Meditation by Terra Oliveira
    • An Old Blue Light by Terra Oliveira
  • Journal
    • Issue Four: Fall 2020
    • Issue Three: Spring 2020
    • Issue Two: Fall 2019
    • Issue One: Spring 2019
  • Interviews