{"id":3588,"date":"2024-12-28T04:01:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T04:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/?page_id=3588"},"modified":"2025-01-23T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T17:56:10","slug":"efflorescence-by-will-cordero","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/efflorescence-by-will-cordero\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Efflorescence&#8221; by Will Cordeiro\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a tonic fragrance to the morning. <br><br>Wet earth elates, insatiable with ardor. <br>Late stars of dew <br>    like water we\u2019ve been born in\u2014<br>new tendrils, <br>           thorns\u2014 <br>veronica our garden.<br><br>Each blossom in its fullness loses balance.<br><br>Whole scalloped columns of plush leaves lapse dull <br>and settle downward from embowerments. <br><br>A crush of petals browns, <br>            cascades, <br>                      and falls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Will Cordeiro<\/strong> has published work in <em>32 Poems<\/em>, <em>AGNI<\/em>, <em>Bennington Review<\/em>, <em>Best New Poets<\/em>, <em>Copper Nickel<\/em>, <em>Pleiades<\/em>, and <em>The Threepenny Review<\/em>. Will authored <em>Trap Street<\/em> (Able Muse, 2021) and <em>Whispering Gallery<\/em> (DUMBO Press, forthcoming 2024) and co-authored <em>Experimental Writing: A Writer\u2019s Guide and Anthology<\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2024). Will received an MFA and Ph.D. from Cornell University. Will co-edits Eggtooth Editions and lives in Guadalajara, Mexico. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a tonic fragrance to the morning. Wet earth elates, insatiable with ardor. Late stars of dew like water we\u2019ve been born in\u2014new tendrils, thorns\u2014 veronica our garden. Each blossom in its fullness loses balance. Whole scalloped columns of plush leaves lapse dull and settle downward from embowerments. A crush of petals browns, cascades, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/efflorescence-by-will-cordero\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Efflorescence&#8221; by Will Cordeiro\u00a0&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2310,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3588","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}