SPORK PRESS
sporklet 15
Maggie Nipps
Outside the City

Lay flush against a field
of grass, the flat exposure,
the rising tendrils.

 

[ENERGY as CHLOROPHYLL and PRICKLING
and GROWTH and BLADES and BREACHING…]

 

This field is hypothetical, or
irrelevant in the face of our

hyperbolic plane|slice in time

fall through it to another,
fit comfortably on the plane below;

 

[…and DATA]

 

information never is
lost in a black hole, but nested
below this surface. What

goes down must keep going.

Maggie Nipps is a poet and playwright from Wisconsin, currently studying at the University of Iowa. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Dream Pop Journal, No Contact, Cobra Milk, and petrichor. She co-edits the lit mag Afternoon Visitor.