WALKING ALONE

Once Celan chose

to leave his words,

illustrated what we

might hope

to never know

firsthand, and what

some of us known;

potential for actually

heard communication,

to speak (for) multiple

selves, across time

and mind. And hand

silence. A place to wait.

Adam Day is an American poet and critic. He is the author of Left-Handed Wolf, Model of a City in Civil War, and one chapbook of poetry, Badger, Apocrypha. He is also editor of the anthology, Divine Orphans of the Poetic Project.