GOAT FOIL (EXCERPT)

To sit by the vowel

And assess its pleats

“
enough as say, tree
este branch
lace is perish
aken; The odor is put
hastily,
; long-1
not ” and t ry

 

 

 

Of the rain the lurid arms

Which taint the fine aisles of the ocean

Murmurs of an imminent hour

Dollars the action of water

“
to such a degree
that the accumulations become images
and don’t pleasure the Mt.
counting the (shores, sores)
May, May without seeing you

 

 

 

Do not repair the background

The mist in abandon

Nervous marvelous naught

“
The cellos play
eu
mir of the message
a figure,
atleaf.
lle.
real story
is an indivisible configure re (there lies the incredible
(paradox:
body a body. tions of th
a certain thing) con
bod ed

 

 

 

Mutuals trespass without will

Stratum of really interesting pain

The force of inveterate invitations

Shells burbots multiple suns and echinoderms of the west
 
 
“
res.
and rest.
by setting to music it was
found sweet earth
I wrote uck

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from Goat Foil–published by TABLOID

Buy it here

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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, and mercury firs. He lives in Versailles.