Near the sea steps
she inexplicably
took his hand and began
to run buildings
that had not been rebuilt,
the streets ambling
into autumn of police
shields preparing
for choppy waves
of green. Memory history
becomes an image
thrown on the face
of a water body; skewed,
beautiful, like decomposing
permafrost amid comfort
in knowing the sun
progresses toward
dust just as do we,
a doe, or garage.
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 America Literary Award. He is the publisher of the cultural magazine Action, Spectacle.
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