Fullness

Edward Salem

Behind eternity isn’tmore eternity. Nothinglies in wait. Maybe youthink of it as a vacuum,a void at the center ofthe universe, a dotthat went all waysat once, an asterisk,footnote to everything.Nothing is the Godheadthat gobbles the worldin one fell swoop,but has no anus.

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September 2, 2024

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Edward Salem is the author of the poetry collection Monk Fruit (Nightboat Books, 2025). His writing appears in The New York Review of Books, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, BOMB, and elsewhere.

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