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issue 8: LOVERS

overture

ADAM GIANFORCARO
​The way in which sound 
comes and goes and echoes 
 
so feverishly. The world 
inside and outside
 
like two shoulders 
that never knew they were shoulders
 
despite the weight 
placed on top of them.
 
Don’t forget about the open window
and how it whispers breathily.
 
And what is a window
but a lover, a fable: Day 
 
in her daylight gown,
the sun singing folk songs again,
 
singing skies
in the key of Wheat Field 
 
with Cypresses. Don’t forget
about the window,
 
who was kind enough earlier
to mention the doorway
 
in its reflection.

Adam Gianforcaro (he/him) lives in Wilmington, Delaware. His poems can be found or are forthcoming in RHINO Poetry, Third Coast, the minnesota review, Rust + Moth, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. He tweets intermittently under the handle @xadamg.
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