James Davis May | The Sun Magazine

James Davis May

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James Davis May’s second poetry collection, Unusually Grand Ideas, focuses on depression and grief. He’s promised himself that his next book will be about gratitude. He lives in Macon, Georgia.

— From March 2023
Poetry

The Patron Saint Of Traffic Lights

My child is in the backseat with her mother / and can’t understand what’s happening, / keeps forgetting we’ve already told her / that she fainted and hit her head hard / on our living room’s stone floor

March 2023
Poetry

Spam From The Dead

And two months after the cancer finally ate through / the last tissues that separated him from death, / I get a message from his e-mail address, / urging me to click on a link I know I shouldn’t

May 2021
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