2 poems by Adam Day

The Neighborhood

Negotiating encounters

 of difference, hemmed in

among lungwort

and drone glow,

Doughboy shot

the wrong

cop. Tomorrow’s

dew will be frost

trying to forget

it was founded

on a web of breath.

Shelter II

      After Raúl Zurita

My fingers

touch yours

because if I

touch you

and you 

touch me

perhaps 

not everything

is lost.

Adam Day is the author of Left-Handed Wolf (LSU Press), and of Model of a City in Civil War (Sarabande Books), and the recipient of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, and of a PEN Award. His work has appeared in the APR, Boston Review, The Progressive, Volt, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He is the publisher of Action, Spectacle.  

4 September 2023