Our
hearts
were
two
kites
tangled
in a
tree. A tree
called
Malady.
A name
I
misheard
as
Melody. Melody
was
the song I
sang
of the tree,
wrong
for years
until
it withered
&
we wept to find
ourselves
free.
Adam O. Davis is the author of Index of Haunted Houses (Sarabande, 2020) and the recipient of the 2016 George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Best American Poetry 2021, The Cincinnati Review, Dark Mountain, New Ohio Review, and Poetry Review.
the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan
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