Kristi Maxwell
Cui-ui
a beautiful outlaw
Today, the holster hosts no weapon, not even a fang.
A feast of snow feeds a lake, pesters a lonely plate.
How does a hologram dream? A so-so lord battles
a hologram’s blooper: a ghost whose feelers
feel of frozen stone. Drool grows to flood. Not a handsome wet.
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Forget blood’s fleet. Forget bloom’s flop. A woman leaks. Forget grass
as green’s poster-kid. One fawns over a doe. One yawns and a yodel
emerges. Address a meadow as land’s slow jam. Groove. A beastly storm
hardly stops a bone. Fog as a plaster on the broken sky. Hope softens.
A flagrant web of hope passes as home, morphs to table. We’re the meal.
Chinchilla
a beautiful outlaw
error’s robot wrote body body body
week to week week or two of
better yogurt: pure fuss, gourmet sorrow
woke to ‘best of’ of sex
yet bored oyster but
deeper fork worked
burst purse
guess muumuu or murmur
suds grope form
soft dowry of regret
geese perk up sky
joy stems from bye
youth’s porous detour droop-troupe
dumb fumes
our seer borrows dust from dry streets
moved by go’s story, our seer, too, goes
poster of empty eggs
poser vortex demoted to storm-sour gust
ego-stuffed motor ordered to zoom
red red ruses
June Sucker
a beautiful outlaw
a giddy widow hid a foal: a hoax-family
to fool—fill—a “why?”
a filly to add glad to a bald day
mad at a limit—ova afloat: blimp? boat?
a tomb told off by whom?
a TV told of a wall, a gloat
a body bid that a moat halt
what might dim—to loot god
of doom—a moot gig—a limo
with a flat—a lamp lit at midday
a giddy widow hid a foal: a hoax-family
to fool—fill—a “why?”
a filly to add glad to a bald day
mad at a limit—ova afloat: blimp? boat?
a tomb told off by whom?
a TV told of a wall, a gloat
a body bid that a moat halt
what might dim—to loot god
of doom—a moot gig—a limo
with a flat—a lamp lit at midday
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Kristi Maxwell is the author of six books of poems, including Bright and Hurtless (Ahsahta Press, 2018), PLAN/K (Horse Less, 2015), and That Our Eyes Be Rigged (Saturnalia Books, 2014). Her poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Bennington Review, Boston Review, and jubilat, among elsewhere. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisville.