Ease Down the Road

By Adam Day / Issue 7

Oh, oh god
are you calling
 
again? God,
Richard, please,
 
just don’t do this
to yourself. I mean, why
 
why don’t, why
don’t you go home
 
and bathe,
or something
 
like that, just,
just don’t call here
 
anymore… Just
a minute, John!

Adam Day is the author of Model of a City in Civil War (Sarabande Books), and is the recipient of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, a PEN Emerging Writers Award, and an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. His work has appeared in Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, AGNI, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He coordinates The Baltic Writing Residency in Latvia, Scotland, and the Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest.