- Morning Exhaust
cotton threads the taste of leather white wind the clapping sound
as it blows the clapping sound the blows of men
cowering in the cowshed wife in the dirt white spit in the dirt
teeth semen the american dream jars of tobacco spit thread
the flags on your truck whispering [End Page 14]
Adam Gianforcaro is the author of the poetry collection Morning Time in the Household, Looking Out (2013) and the children's picture book Uma the Umbrella (2014). His most recent work can be found in Poet Lore, Lunch Ticket, and Literary Orphans.