TODD DAVIS is the author of seven full-length collections of poetry as well as a limited-edition chapbook, Household of Water, Moon, & Snow. His writing has won the Midwest Book Award, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, the Bloomsburg University Book Prize, and the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Silver and Bronze Awards.

Todd Davis is one of America’s most capacious and imaginative poets. He has an unparalleled ability to weave a new history from the immediate, meditating on the natural world with imagistic elegance and lyric dignity. In his exquisite seventh book Coffin Honey, Davis is in tune with both the mundane and the spiritual in revelatory ways. Every poem here teaches us something more about need, something more about compassion, and the nuanced violence we encounter in between. —Adrian Matejka, author of Somebody Else Sold the World

• Contents If We Have to Go Buck Day Hunting with Dogs Music for Film before the Destruction of a Drone Taxidermy: Cathartes aura Rooster What I Know about the Last Lynching in Jeff Davis County Bad Seed As the Mountain Grows Dark Before the Miscarriage Churching the Cow Ursus in the Underworld dream elevator Mother What Her Father Taught Her Coffin Honey Dowser Field Sermon Lambing Tattoos Cataract Her Back Bog Parable dream elevator Extinction Possum Up on Blue Knob Foot Washing Blind Horse The Book of Miracles Foxfire Snapper Relics dream elevator Bear-Eater Bodies in May A Map What the Market Will Bear Pawpaw Elegy Ursus Considers the First Gospel of Snake The Cedars in the Pasture Ursus Grows Wings Learning to Tie a Fly Lost Blue dream elevator This Tired Flesh Snow’s Memory Learning to Walk Upright Until Darkness Comes Of This World Watershed Winter Solstice When I Survey the Wondrous Cross Museum: Ursus americanus How to Measure Sea Level Rise When the Stones Are Undone In the Garden To Wake from Long Sleep in Darkness What We Died For Sitting Shiva Acknowledgments

TODD DAVIS is the author of seven full-length collections of poetry as well as a limited-edition chapbook, Household of Water, Moon, & Snow. His writing has won the Midwest Book Award, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, the Bloomsburg University Book Prize, and the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Silver and Bronze Awards.

Todd Davis is one of America’s most capacious and imaginative poets. He has an unparalleled ability to weave a new history from the immediate, meditating on the natural world with imagistic elegance and lyric dignity. In his exquisite seventh book Coffin Honey, Davis is in tune with both the mundane and the spiritual in revelatory ways. Every poem here teaches us something more about need, something more about compassion, and the nuanced violence we encounter in between. —Adrian Matejka, author of Somebody Else Sold the World

• Contents If We Have to Go Buck Day Hunting with Dogs Music for Film before the Destruction of a Drone Taxidermy: Cathartes aura Rooster What I Know about the Last Lynching in Jeff Davis County Bad Seed As the Mountain Grows Dark Before the Miscarriage Churching the Cow Ursus in the Underworld dream elevator Mother What Her Father Taught Her Coffin Honey Dowser Field Sermon Lambing Tattoos Cataract Her Back Bog Parable dream elevator Extinction Possum Up on Blue Knob Foot Washing Blind Horse The Book of Miracles Foxfire Snapper Relics dream elevator Bear-Eater Bodies in May A Map What the Market Will Bear Pawpaw Elegy Ursus Considers the First Gospel of Snake The Cedars in the Pasture Ursus Grows Wings Learning to Tie a Fly Lost Blue dream elevator This Tired Flesh Snow’s Memory Learning to Walk Upright Until Darkness Comes Of This World Watershed Winter Solstice When I Survey the Wondrous Cross Museum: Ursus americanus How to Measure Sea Level Rise When the Stones Are Undone In the Garden To Wake from Long Sleep in Darkness What We Died For Sitting Shiva Acknowledgments

TODD DAVIS is the author of seven full-length collections of poetry as well as a limited-edition chapbook, Household of Water, Moon, & Snow. His writing has won the Midwest Book Award, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, the Bloomsburg University Book Prize, and the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Silver and Bronze Awards.

Todd Davis is one of America’s most capacious and imaginative poets. He has an unparalleled ability to weave a new history from the immediate, meditating on the natural world with imagistic elegance and lyric dignity. In his exquisite seventh book Coffin Honey, Davis is in tune with both the mundane and the spiritual in revelatory ways. Every poem here teaches us something more about need, something more about compassion, and the nuanced violence we encounter in between. —Adrian Matejka, author of Somebody Else Sold the World

• Contents If We Have to Go Buck Day Hunting with Dogs Music for Film before the Destruction of a Drone Taxidermy: Cathartes aura Rooster What I Know about the Last Lynching in Jeff Davis County Bad Seed As the Mountain Grows Dark Before the Miscarriage Churching the Cow Ursus in the Underworld dream elevator Mother What Her Father Taught Her Coffin Honey Dowser Field Sermon Lambing Tattoos Cataract Her Back Bog Parable dream elevator Extinction Possum Up on Blue Knob Foot Washing Blind Horse The Book of Miracles Foxfire Snapper Relics dream elevator Bear-Eater Bodies in May A Map What the Market Will Bear Pawpaw Elegy Ursus Considers the First Gospel of Snake The Cedars in the Pasture Ursus Grows Wings Learning to Tie a Fly Lost Blue dream elevator This Tired Flesh Snow’s Memory Learning to Walk Upright Until Darkness Comes Of This World Watershed Winter Solstice When I Survey the Wondrous Cross Museum: Ursus americanus How to Measure Sea Level Rise When the Stones Are Undone In the Garden To Wake from Long Sleep in Darkness What We Died For Sitting Shiva Acknowledgments