NORTHEAST OHIO SPOTLIGHT

The Embers of Eve

Poetry by ​​Teri Ellen Cross Davis

​after “From Eden” by Hozier
 
I’d be lying if I said
I am not intrigued by
your scent of cloves
and brimstone, their
intoxicating burn.
Then there’s the sway
of misdirection
in your voice.
I imagine poppies,
wild honey in your
kiss. Tell me more
of why you’re outside
my door? Where’s Adam?
I heard the breeze
whisper my name
then catch fire—and
I haven’t seen him since.

Teri Ellen Cross Davis

Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of a more perfect Union (Feb, 2021, Mad Creek Books), 2019 winner of the Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, and Haint, winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. She was awarded the Poetry Society of America’s Robert H. Winner Memorial Prize in 2020. She is a Cave Canem fellow and the Poetry Coordinator for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C.