A poem by Adam Day
For Alan Henning
We will take you back from war
and its three a.m. anxieties,
the soldiers with beards and lighted
Adam Day is the recipient of a 2010 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, and is also the recipient of a 2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award. His work has appeared in the Boston Review, Guernica, AGNI, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, APR, and elsewhere. He coordinates The Baltic Writing Residency in Latvia, Scotland, and Kentucky.