At Length

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Kristi Maxwell

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    An extension of Inger Christensen’s abecedarian poem, Alfabet (1981), Kristi Maxwell’s “[o]” uses the Fibonacci sequence to create its spiraling, expansive form. But don’t let the poem’s playfulness fool you; these lines might be the countdown to a liftoff or an explosion, the start of a race or the end of the world.