John Davis

You Will Know the Wind
 
Sunlight will find you
at your own speed.
Here among weeds
there are no hours or years
only the green.
 
Listen to the voices on leaves.
Believe in silence and shade.
This path remembers
all your footprints.
It is so glad you have come.

John Davis is a polio survivor and the author of Gigs and The Reservist. His work has appeared in DMQ Review, Iron Horse Literary Review and Terrain.org. He lives on an island in the Salish Sea and performs in several bands.