Adam Day
Yuugen Gulf
Fog sheet from cloud
to ground. Mahogany water
of the horse’s dead eye.
Guangin
It rained
so neighbor
walked barefoot
through brightwork
of parked
and rolling cars,
sewn inside
his coat. Best place
to hide something
is in
the present; no one
looks there.
Adam Day is the author of the collection of poetry, 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 Emerging Writers Award. His work has appeared in APR, Poetry London, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Lana Turner, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He also directs the Baltic Writing Residency in Sweden, Scotland, and Blackacre Nature Preserve, and edits the forthcoming literary journal, Action, Spectacle. Visit his website: adamdaywriter.com
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Fog sheet from cloud
to ground. Mahogany water
of the horse’s dead eye.
Guangin
It rained
so neighbor
walked barefoot
through brightwork
of parked
and rolling cars,
sewn inside
his coat. Best place
to hide something
is in
the present; no one
looks there.
Adam Day is the author of the collection of poetry, 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 Emerging Writers Award. His work has appeared in APR, Poetry London, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Lana Turner, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He also directs the Baltic Writing Residency in Sweden, Scotland, and Blackacre Nature Preserve, and edits the forthcoming literary journal, Action, Spectacle. Visit his website: adamdaywriter.com
Return to May 2018 Edition