Maxwell Gontarek
from Rapides
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As choired Aux
barbed water
harch
l’unar
lent
that
tow for example,
each virtual detour
and the road’s load-bearing surface
is also light
What went went without imme
diates in the time of the hors or
how measurable time can be gathered and so ordered
within the language A pin, a procession, a This is
what they have in common One one after
the other the words In that commercialist fait,
the Try to do it in the form of my concerns
The main incentive to social activity
being not lucrative As so many side
reals
Surrounding Landing Triage
supposed dark, muscle of supposed dark
see
butter inside under the hammer
of the eyelids of everything
Ex latent
languor
in the rainier empire
Glowing like a drink, day blue, petal of you
Sequence, if it’s possible
Wooded The words
certainly borrowed from the Est
Agrestic
flat, pleat
A brutal simultaneous
night in
the indistinct world
Real as
panting
Maxwell Gontarek wrote Goat Foil (TABLOID, 2026) and Study for Swimming Hole (Community Mausoleum, 2025). His poems have most recently appeared in bethh, Vat, APARTMENT, mercury firs, Lana Turner, and elsewhere. He lives in Versailles.