Eating Weeds by Adam Day

Chilled sunlight

spreads across

the shuttered

turbine plant –

tribal nationalism;

restive remembering.

Surrounding forest

stands in clotted

darkness. Cardinal

flowers rise

to building’s windows;

farther out

the mirror

of water whitens.

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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 American Poetry Review, Poetry London, Kenyon Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Iowa Review, Cordite, Poetry Wales, and elsewhere. He is the publisher of Action, Spectacle.