Fall 2013, Volume 15

Poetry by Will Cordeiro

This Day

As endless clouds map
shadows over
swaying,

rooted, golden-headed wheat,
the light here gives
relief

to summergreen of leaf
and ground: each
over-

lap running in the rippled
wind. How many
years

have slipped to so much less?
Toward the verge,
I am 

one small white star
upon a horse,
bent

to nibble grass beyond
the weathered
fence.

 

 

BIO: Will Cordeiro received his MFA from Cornell University where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate completing his dissertation on 18th century British literature. His creative work appears widely, including recent publications in Copper Nickel, Crab Orchard Review, Dear Sir, Fourteen Hills, Harpur Palate, Memoir Journal, Raintown Review, Sentence, and Verse online. He is grateful for residencies from Risley Residential College, Provincetown Community Compact, Ora Lerman Trust, ART 342, Blue Mountain Center, and Petrified Forest National Park. He lives in Tucson, Arizona where he volunteers at the Poetry Center.