Andrew Maxwell

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antithesis

Turns breath                now. If windlessly as if. Adriftedly
that which already. In falling
leaves only

as crimson as yet leaves.

In thicketed
spirals of
asphalt. In spirals of
that which bleeds only. Your mouth
as yet only. The mouth of

that river of

sighs which beginning
already. In that which
approaches

already approaches. No other of
thunder. No other

wise end.

Andrew Maxwell is from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in Yalobusha Review, Lana Turner, Colorado Review, antiphony, and Conjunctions, among other places.