THREE POEMS

SHORT EARTH

Waterfall where

there’s not enough

ground. Autumn

flies. On the high branch   

a corpse; rain

filling shoes.

Sight eyes still 

traveling. Storm

veins; sea breaking

blind in whip wind.   

CITY LIGHTS

Video shows

the world is uneven.

Like teeth

eating themselves. 

Wouldn’t know

itself otherwise.

WING STITCHER

Wild grass and black-tail

tracks. Men pushing

against trees;

damp muscle

in double shade –

Time unborn. City fire

off somewhere. – Forgetting

to be scared;

teaching the living

this other dying.

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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.