Andrew Maxwell

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invocation

Still for you.     Still as if. Unwritten. As crowspeech
comes only. As dark as that day that
day in which               
dark in which dark only. Dry
branching. Trees harrow
these pages of

pages. Grey faceless. Flayed as if         
these pages of
winter
these in which. Dry
branching. Words runelike. Words
for you

are only. Unwritten
by distance

already. Held dear.

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.