Three Poems by Andrew Maxwell

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the errant

Already gone always. Already gone
into that twilight that opens
love. Only love opens

that twilight.

That twilight. That only. In silence.
For silence that only will
open. This

mouth without why.

                    *

Yet receiving without yet. Receiving leaves only.
Ungathering shadows. Ungathering nothing
with nothing. Conceiving.

                    *

For nothing already loved always.
That nothing already loved always.
Becoming for nothing that nothing.

Becoming already. Loved always.

                    *

As grace abides only. As only
that silence. That silence abides now
without why. Where

twilight is never. Is never begun.