Adam Day

Elegy II

House passing
through night

snow, keeping
our secrets, stalled

in forgetfulness:
a hollow place

where no one goes
anymore, endless

corridors, blacked out
garden lights, the bored

forest and cancelled
stars, two hounds baying

frozen from a loss
of love, the face

I made for you.

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.