Adam Day’s forthcoming collection is Winter Inventory (Sarabande Books). He is the recipient of a 2010 Poetry Society of America Chapbook
Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, and of a 2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award. His work has appeared in the Boston Review, Lana Turner, APR, Guernica, Iowa Review, BOMB, AGNI, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He also directs the Baltic Writing Residency in Latvia, Scotland, and Bernheim Forest.
The Algerian sunrise
vanished—looking for
doorways, great blue
quiet, cutting lengths
of wood, appearing
elsewhere, wet
with rain, tucked
toward the window
of a small house.