{"id":3589,"date":"2024-12-28T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T04:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/?page_id=3589"},"modified":"2025-01-23T17:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T17:56:31","slug":"phosphenes-by-will-cordero","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/phosphenes-by-will-cordero\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Phosphenes&#8221; by Will Cordeiro\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I squeeze my eyes\u2014now tight, now looser\u2014 <br>and dark squints back before it flees<br>with little unreal sparks of luster.<br><br>They give me something to believe<br>almost: the mind\u2019s own chancy dregs<br>of blind experience which feel<br><br>halfway to truth, halfway alleged\u2026<br>From clouds, a freckled shadow falls, <br>and you\u2014you\u2019re history\u2019s brief fragments,<br><br>some pinchbeck trinket feigning gold.<br>The dusk-lit hillsides put on drag;<br>birds riddle feeders with their holes. <\/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>I squeeze my eyes\u2014now tight, now looser\u2014 and dark squints back before it fleeswith little unreal sparks of luster. They give me something to believealmost: the mind\u2019s own chancy dregsof blind experience which feel halfway to truth, halfway alleged\u2026From clouds, a freckled shadow falls, and you\u2014you\u2019re history\u2019s brief fragments, some pinchbeck trinket feigning gold.The dusk-lit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/phosphenes-by-will-cordero\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Phosphenes&#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-3589","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3589","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=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}