cody adams

Originally from Buffalo, NY, Cody Adams currently teaches at a high school in Toronto, ON. His writing has appeared in Defenestration, Ekstasis Magazine, Heart of Flesh Literary Journal, Spirit Fire Review, and Cacti Fur, among others. He also serves as a Board Member for Forefront Festival.

anniversary

Last night my

father’s ‘88 Ford F-150

rumbled down Main Street,

trailed by wispy clouds of

whiskey-drenched breath.

His battered bumper

veered into the village

cemetery. The steel fist

of the Ford’s face

punched through tombstones;

jagged hunks of marble and granite

thudded against the windshield.

Names, dates, and brief quotes attempting to

encapsulate an entire human life

exploded into a scrambled mess

of airborne gravel.

Tires tore chunks

of turf from earth like

scalp scraped from skull.

He skidded to a halt

just before his bumper

could collide with one

small stone at the end of a row,

a stone that showed two

years from the same decade,

a stone gently kissed by his steel fist,

a stone that bore my name.

Read more of Cody’s work in Solum Journal Volume V (forthcoming).