Five Poems

Quoted material in “Future Stars” is from the article “How the first stars split the Universe apart” (2022), by Dr. Katie Mack.

Chris Davidson was born in Laguna Beach, graduated from San Clemente High, and has lived all over Orange County—San Juan Capistrano, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Tustin, and Seal Beach. His poetry has appeared, most recently, in The MacGuffin, The Mockingbird, Social Alternatives, Ekstasis, and Zocalo Public Square. Davidson's poems are included in the anthologies Orange County: A Literary Field Guide and Why To These Rocks: 50 Years of Poetry from the Community of Writers. His chapbook, Easy Meal, was published in 2020. He lives in Long Beach.