Poems of Kristi Maxwell

Plenty To nanny ghosts          or just baby them chill children, subtracted adults           I hold a ghost in the bassinet of my mouth                a cherry tomato without a crown Things I’ve learned: an AMBER alert is a bacronym, created to honor the kidnapped and murdered girl who inspired it             all-capped and angry    ghost in a letter behind which is a hidden room            a whole word   a harnessed sound the bacronym and acronym a kind of camping chair   making cartable the broader seat of a phrase                 a kind of bacon that’s an…

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