Model of a City in Civil War by Adam Day

Author:Adam Day
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarabande Books

sold from back of a truck. A preacher

stumbling over a mastiff, like a little man;

the insinuation of a human on a chain—

the slobbering aperture. A street sweeper

swinging his broom like a scythe. A starling

speaks and goes. Like someone who has a choice.

SNOW IN A BRICK COURTYARD

On a kitchen window’s slate ledge,

a swallow, white chest dusted orange

from the moth in its beak. Across

the courtyard, a black dog perched

atop its house, one ear pricked

to the wind. A rusty nail

sticks up from a sodden

half-buried plank, shocking the snow

with a faint russet pulse. And a child’s

distant croup-cough seems to stir

snow from frost-glazed branches.

Here is the cloud-helmeted sun, and here

is the world smoothed and close

to the eyes, like the gleam of cupped hands

bathing a face above a sink’s darkening basin.

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