Summer with its clairvoyance—

the woundlight

                        marks its borderland.

 

A larcenous, an other

-worldly dark enjoins us

 

to stay another minute. Carboniferously

 

sift us, damage. Help us glimmer

over

 

this obsidian:

all slag & de-

                                  realized. Null caress

 

                 & smoke.

 

Rag-picking

 

shadows, do not spare us.

We famish

                 into nothing’s plight:

 

a bare meridian going for broke.

 

You cup the light

here in my hand

 

& everything I am is only flesh.

 


Will Cordeiro has recent work appearing or forthcoming in Best New Poets, Blue Earth Review, DIAGRAM, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Poetry Northwest, The MacGuffin, The Threepenny Review,Under the Gum Tree, Zone 3, and elsewhere. He lives in Flagstaff and teaches in the Honors College at Northern Arizona University.