The source of all I sense, am still not soldĮach detail’s burnt into a verge with fact. I’m getting hammered the chips are down.Īway. Line of a candled egg, this facsimile that’sīeen over-copied into smutch. Who’ve taken shelter in this musty place. These latter days I’d rather hide my face
Outside and breathe the ruddy smear of dawnīy the transport depot with its sweet exhaust Is blind-the clock I’ve studied hasn’t moved Half-smudged, “Our Specal Deal 2nite is: Shot.” More coins while someone else adjusts a radio. A drunk keeps punchingīuttons on the busted juke and feeding it The crook of his locked arms comes up to smoke, Offs which show a little sag of ass, ignores In-the-wall-it’s all rubble, plywood, braces Six sharp, the first bus leaves.Īvoid the shit-stained bum crouched on the floor,ĭive nearby, which leaves me with some time Can’t sleep in Port Authority.īest get a room. Last chance to transfer, so a gaunt white cop I left a girl and job here what now seems a life
To Meadowlands beyond these storied heights. Or slumber through dark tunnels into slums, Late stumble down a crumbling street to harbor They grab their jumbled packs from overhead Their temples rattled on hard panes of glass. Who’ve slumped on one another’s shoulders, rolledĪcross three states, holding duffels in their laps, The Greyhound downshifts to a chuffed-out grind.Ī shock of lights awake the eyes of strangers (previously published in Museum of Americana: A Literary Review)
Sample poems from William Cordeiro's Trap Street
He lives in Flagstaff, where he teaches in the Honors College at Northern Arizona University. He received his MFA and PhD from Cornell University. He is grateful for a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, a scholarship from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a Truman Capote Writer’s Fellowship, as well as residencies from ART 342, Blue Mountain Center, Ora Lerman Trust, Petrified Forest National Park, and Risley Residential College. He coedits the small press Eggtooth Editions. William Cordeiro has work appearing or forthcoming in Best New Poets, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Fourteen Hills, Nashville Review, Poetry Northwest, Salamander, Sycamore Review, the Threepenny Review, Zone 3, and elsewhere. (the contest runner-up and honorable mentions are listed here) Trap Street Selected by final judge, David MasonĬoming soon from Able Muse Press - Spring/Summer 2020
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