My aunt shaves in her underwear while she talks to her hair – like plant sentience: “If you leave someone, you’ve got to do it for a real piece of ass.” The whole thing is ridiculous: it’s like being inside a bird; where do you live when you’re sick?
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 Award. He is the editor of the forthcoming anthology, Divine Orphans of the Poetic Project, from 1913 Press, and his work has appeared in the APR, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Volt, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He is the publisher of Action, Spectacle.
