Psalm 149

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Every void has its entourage. Florid-

a’s an oracle with its sinkholes and 

massage parlors. Smartphones dumb

down the ether. Rather, isn’t all emptiness

a mirage? Everywhere the mouth speaks 

holy-holy. Even here, in the cancerous  

prostate, in the tumorous cysts. Hear 

the fisting of a lubed pornstar. Fallout drifts

like his scalp’s dander. Quasars budding 

at the furthest edge and red-

shifting are the universe coming out and out forever.

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Will Cordeiro has work published or forthcoming in AGNI, Bennington Review, Best New Poets, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, The Offing, Palette Poetry, Poetry Northwest, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Will won the 2019 Able Muse Book Award for Trap Street. Will is also coauthor of Experimental Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, forthcoming from Bloomsbury. Will co-edits Eggtooth Editions and currently teaches in the Honors College at Northern Arizona University.

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