Adam Day
A Part
In the room
where always
another has been
with an old oar
pushes the waves
away in a sea
of sleet.
Transom
Kid climbs
a ladder
of oryx horns
and swallows
the son
of the moon,
it’s hungry
ghosts, and cuts
like drugs.
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Adam Day is the author of Left-Handed Wolf (LSU Press, 2020), 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. He is the editor of the forthcoming anthology, Divine Orphans of the Poetic Project, from 1913 Press, and his work has appeared in the APR, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Volt, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, and elsewhere.