I have a big TV for streaming.
Another documentary on sacred whereabouts.
The wounded, working heart – the most
holy site I know. Its beats. Its battered truths
I try to attend, decipher, hold.

From “Ark of the Lost Covenant” in Please Hold, published by Fomite Press, December 2025. Other books appear below. Click on an image to link to the publisher.

”David Cavanagh’s poems are of a fierce quietude. His is the voice of a poet who knows that time doesn’t remove possibilities from our lives, it refines what we are. Listen: these are poems of the pure voice that’s left to us to leave behind.”

— Richard Harrison, author of On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood