Elsewhere & Wise
Kristi Maxwell
dancing girl press, 2008
Kristi Maxwell's first book of poems, Realm Sixty-four, was published recently through Ahsahta Press. Her second book, Hush Sessions, will be published by Saturnalia in 2009. She is pursuing a doctorate in English at the University of Cincinnati.
from Elsewhere & Wise
There by the knee by the creek
you bend to again.
I want to unfold the weekday of heaven
and stuff something else
where your bending your knee eludes me.
The heft of the silk we call creek
is no where here but as
a word.
The countdown began yesterday, small enough.
A number that dips as did
your bending, a hymn your knee steals.
It doesn’t really have to have
a stopping. Doesn’t have.
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