Two Poems on Lancaster City Buses

Thanks to Word Hive and the City of Lancaster for displaying two of my poems on local buses in 2024. Art in public places helps us slow down and feel, which is critical to cultivating our humanity in a turbulent world. I hope readers of all the poems in this program felt a measure of connection and hope as they took in the words of local poets. Read this article about the program in Lancaster Online.

We Could Have Stood for Days

where waves kissed sand, your
small hand in mine, the curled water
crashing, the sun brash, gulls lithe
as brush strokes in the air, our bodies
loose and light, our bodies magic, beckoned
by the line between ocean and sky.

–Heather L. Davis

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May This Day Be

the Susquehanna, gliding soft over mossy rocks
to burble jazzy tunes. May it play
with sun and shadow, sparkling everywhere,
then twist and turn, greening the landscape,
making new life, its current unstoppable, hitting
all the right notes.

–Heather L. Davis