It may come
that I don’t

make it out. So,
let’s be quiet,

tell medium truths,
so many kinds

of truths. This was so
and slipped forth.

 

 

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Adam Day is the author of Left-Handed Wolf (LSU) and Model of a City in Civil War (Sarabande). He is also the recipient of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha and of a PEN America Literary Award.