Fable
By Adam Day
“The cherry / spit out / its pit. A spider / crawled the wall, / tasting the brick / with its forelegs.”
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 America Literary Award. He publishes the literary journal, Action Spectacle.