Monday, December 9, 2024

new poem from an old notebook, by Jordan Davis

 


I’ve had this impossible notebook
for thirty years. Good rigid cover
but you have to bend it in a way
it’ll obviously fatigue. 

Banana paper,
always banana paper 

I think I got this
at the place on Third,
New York Art Supply 

The surliest Parsons kids
playing hardcore
and scowling 

I wonder how many were OTD

The feeling of writing on a lunch bag
forever 

It isn’t lunch break
forever
however

 

 



Jordan Davis is editor of The Nu Review. In 2025 he is helping coordinate the Kenneth Koch Centenary Celebration. Recent work appears in Oversound, The Canary, and American Poetry Review. His most recent book is Yeah, No (MadHat, 2024).

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