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# Influencer by Sterling Davis
- URL: https://latest.poetriesinenglish.com/influencer-by-sterling-davis/
- Published: 2026-06-13T02:31:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-21T16:15:05.000Z
- Description: Sterling Davis is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Poetries in English Magazine.
- Author: The Editors
- Tags: Poetry

Prophet without followers   
Elitist without cash   
This low rent demigod:   
His great fear is of silence.   
Silence, too is a metaphysics   
In that garret, in that sarcophagus  
Manikin can scream as viburnums. 

The screaming viburnums   
The jardin du luxembourg. The shrieks.   
Even to the Quai d’Orsay. Sometimes I   
Think about cataclysms. Once I read   
*American Poetry Review* and nearly  
Disappeared. At Palais Royale it was   
*Poet Lore* while others scrolled. 

At the Etruscan exhibit it was *Quarterly*   
*West* or was that at Centre Pompidou?   
I checked my Instagram—the Influencer   
In Acne Studio. Tasteful, I thought: next   
It was *TriQuarterly*. Joyful tears, the pain   
Of my latest rejection epistle; I turned to   
The translations. My newsfeeds only talks 

Of cataclysms. The glare from my ten year   
Old iPhone among Hôtel de Crillion or was   
It the Ritz. I thought about Bar Hemingway.  
A ghost streamed by. The man at the bar   
Was wearing Tom Ford. Oud Wood? I asked  
Oud wood, the Bois de Boulogne. The   
Creaking trestles. The starlit, daylit morn. 

[Sterling Davis](https://www.poetriesinenglish.com/sterling-davis.html?ref=latest.poetriesinenglish.com) is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Poetries in English Magazine.