One Poem
by Gion Davis
You Can Be Naked
In Your Own House
Someone broke into the van and smoked
a menthol. Someone woke up inside the perfect
hangover. Someone dressed like a cowboy and went
to the pioneer village at the mall. Someone said Wyoming
is when the wind blows your hat off your head and you
have to go chase it. Someone was a better person than
poet and believed it was the other way around. Someone
filmed heart cells beating without a body. Someone wore
a persimmon-colored sweater. Someone called it divorce
and someone else called it West Virginia. Someone came back
to bed smelling like coffee. Someone said I have to say something
and flipped off the car in the left lane. Someone thought
something was off-putting about the boy with the sunburnt
mouth. Someone was right the whole time and said nothing.
Gion Davis is a trans poet from Española, New Mexico where he grew up on a sheep ranch. His poetry has been featured in HAD, MAYDAY Magazine, Sprung Formal, and others. His debut collection Too Much (2022) was selected by Chen Chen for the 2021 Ghost Peach Press Prize. He graduated with his MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2019 and currently lives in Denver, Colorado. Gion can be found on Instagram: @starkstateofmind & on Twitter: @gheeontoast.