Model of a City in Civil War. Adam Day

      

      MODEL OF A CITY IN CIVIL WAR

      THE LINDA BRUCKHEIMER SERIES IN KENTUCKY LITERATURE

      © 2015 by Adam Day

      FIRST EDITION

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Day, Adam, 1977–

      [Poems. Selections]

      Model of a city in civil war : poems / Adam Day.—First edition.

      pages cm

      ISBN 978-1-941411-02-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      I. Title.

      PS3604.A9798A6 2015

      811’.6—dc23

      2014028848

      eBook ISBN: 978-1-941411-06-3

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      Interior by Kirkby Gann Tittle

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      CONTENTS

        Title Page

        Copyright

        Acknowledgments

      1  Before the War

      2  Model of a City in Civil War

      3  Combine

      4  Anoosh’s Obituary for Himself, to His Son

      5  Winter Nights

      6  Hiding Again, in London

      7  Sleeping with Uncle Lester

      8  The Leaving

      9  Winter Inventory

      10  Water from the Same Source

      11  Elebade

      12  Blind Attis

      13  Smoke

      14  Time Away

      15  The Children, the Grass

      16  Undercover

      17  Apprehended at a Distance

      18  Snow in a Brick Courtyard

      19  Winter Fever

      20  The Cow

      21  The Insomniac

      22  We Lived Above the Key Shop

      23  Clean Lines, Diffuse Lighting

      24  Coming in at Night

      25  Washing the Old Man

      26  He Speaks of Old Age

      27  His Dementia

      28  In Mourning

      29  Now and Forever

      30  Fårö

      31  The Kinghorse Butchertown Brawl

      32  Dakota

      33  A Polite History

      34  The Revolution

      35  Diorama—(Scarlet and Liver)

      36  Sarclet

      37  The Mayor in Sky-Blue Socks

      38  The Birthday Party

      39  A Strapping Boy

      40  Orr’s Island

      41  Unease

      42  Comportment

      43  Condensation Cube

        Notes

        The author

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      Grateful acknowledgement to the editors of the following publications, where these poems, sometimes in different versions, first appeared:

      AGNI: “The Children, the Grass” (published as [Here are the Children]” and “Combine”

      Antioch Review: “Hiding Again, in London”

      Carolina Quarterly: “His Dementia”

      Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art: “Sarclet” and “Dakota”

      Colorado Review: “Condensation Cube”

      Copper Nickel: “Blind Attis”

      Crab Orchard Review: “Snow in a Gdansk Courtyard”

      dcomP magazine: “The Revolution”

      FIELD: “Water from the Same Source”

      Forklift: Ohio: “He Speaks of Old Age” (published as “Old Age”)

      Gulf Coast: “Anoosh’s Obituary for Himself, to His Son”

      Handsome: “The Mayor in Sky Blue Socks” (published as “[Deer herd in the icy fields]”)

      Hotel Amerika: “Apprehended at a Distance” (published as “[The colorless lake, buoy bells in fog]”) and “Model of a City in Civil War” (published as “[A diorama of a city in civil war]”)

      Indiana Review: “Fårö” (published as “The Dinner Party”)

      iO: A Journal of New American Poetry: “Time Away” (published as “Shark and Dog”)

      Jelly Fish: “Elebade”

      Kenyon Review: “Diorama—(Scarlet and Liver)” (published as “Gallows Portraits”) and “Family Romance”

      Madison Review: “Sleeping with Uncle Lester”

      Mid-American Review: “The Kinghorse Butchertown Brawl”

      Louisville Review: “Strapping”