Drawing together a selection of meditative fragments, these hermetic stanzas approach the occult inhabitations of spirit, landscape, and self through syntactic density and the repetition of salient imagery. Dreamlike and itinerant, they follow associative roads through dark thickets of speech. They encounter words as yet unspoken. Transfigured by twilight, they linger in middle distance, crafting visionary forms that are as visceral as they are apophatic.

hermetic stanzas (i-xxx), Andrew Maxwell

August, 2027

12 pages

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