Witness Magazine

Paramita

By
Poetry•Vol. XXXI No. 1 (Spring 2018)

Hard the black bear
has to work to speak,

accosting the boulder
for its lack

of ambition, its absence
of anger, its need for touch.

Adam Day
Adam Day is the author of A Model of City in Civil War (Sarabande 2015), and is the recipient of a PSA Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, and of a PEN Emerging Writers Award. His work has appeared in the Boston Review, Lana Turner, APR, Poetry London, AGNI, The Iowa Review, and in other publications. He coordinates The Baltic Writing Residency in Sweden, Scotland, and Blackacre State Nature Preserve.