Adam Day

Aubade

                  After Simone Muench

Your fingers in my mouth
after slowly approaching

in the small hours
when tenderness seems

like a good sleep. Place
a word in a hollow

where a hare could hide.
Alone together, ghostly

silhouettes accumulating
into a single body. It is

the human that is alien.
Still, I pass through you

as you pass through me.

Adam Day is the author of Left-Handed Wolf (LSU Press, 2020) and Model of a City in Civil War (Sarabande Books). He is also 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, Fence, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He is the publisher of Action, Spectacle.