Maria Mortensen Davis

MARIA MORTENSEN DAVIS {[email protected]} is a poet and mother of four living among the mountains and Mormonism of northern Utah, where she draws inspiration from both.

Dowser’s Prayer

Articles/Essays – Volume 58, No. 1

I am religious
the way small desert towns
are named after water;
eleven or twenty worn buildings,
brown hills, dust.

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Holy Places

Articles/Essays – Volume 58, No. 1

No Celestial room has ever compared
to the stalk of yellow bluestem held in my son’s teeth
three-quarters of a mile into a Sunday afternoon walk,
      feathered seeds dancing with every step.

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