Adam Day
—
LOVE SONG
I want both your hands
inside me swimming
around like fish, fucking
each other as much
as we can beneath
the acacias, or sometimes
we just sit inside the garage
with no heads and hold
each other, or drunk
in the bathtub again, mouths
swollen with lake-black leaves.

Adam Day is the author of Left-Handed Wolf (LSU Press), 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. His work has appeared in the APR, Boston Review, The Progressive, Volt, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He is the publisher of Action, Spectacle.
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