Move With Open Hands
Moon hooked
into darkness
and a fox sniffing
at the chimney;
throat murmur,
body sidesteps
the straight edge;
dislocated memory
of blood-sticky
wire, pawed
from soft spaces.
Moist muzzle
of unbending rock-
water — sound
without terminus.
Skin of Fog
He wants
and needs
to be
well punished;
the crow that eats
its own beak.
A disguise
hung out by night
and the leather
chair. Boreal owl
dips back, slick
when the work
is done.
Adam Day is the author of Badger, Apocrypha (Poetry Society of America, 2010), Model of a City in Civil War (Sarabande, 2015), Left-Handed Wolf (LSU Press, 2020) and the recipient of a PEN America Literary Award. He is founder and publisher of Action, Spectacle. More: Twitter @adamdayy
Natasha Kessler is the author of Dismantling the Rabbit Altar (Coconut Books, 2014) and the collaborative chapbook SDVIG (Alice Blue Books, 2012). Kessler teaches creative writing in Omaha and is the founder and artist of SugarWolves Macramé.