Adam Day


A Movement

after Joe Wenderoth


Stop everything and wait. 
You’re almost there.

Agony is wherever. Agony 
is not like anything. 

Not thunder eating
the sleep of mice.

Not quite heavy snow falling 
on a burning house. 

 

Adam Day is the author of Left-Handed Wolf (LSU Press), and 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.

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