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W. Vandoren Wheeler



W. Vandoren Wheeler Bio Note: W. Vandoren Wheeler was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He cracked his head open in various ways in the 2nd, 4th, and 6th grades; he began writing seriously in the 8th grade. He has published poems in various journals, including H_ngM_n, Forklift, and Swink. He currently lives and teaches in Portland, Oregon. His manuscript The Accidentalist won the 2012 Dorothy Brunsman Prize. Please visit vandorenwheeler.com for more details.

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Aww/Awe
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/ (for Martha Henning) // / At the copy machine, / we swap a couple / / phantom limb stories / impressed upon us / / by veterans’…
Scrawled Out
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The hate note I shouted // at the back wall of my skull / I angrily over-edited / / so long the spittle / I intended to smear / across…
Philosophical Indigestion
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Neglected sludge snails / up my Basement walls. / / Kitchen floats above, / on its sheen of everyclean. / / A slow swirling con- / fuses the…
UGLY LADY
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O, the puzzling wedding ring clinging to the finger of an actively unattractive woman … a comical kiss distorts her face. An unfilmable lust /…
Metonymy, Wyoming (after Philip Seymour…
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The only way I can see / my sadness clearly is if / he plays me this morning. / / He pushes back from a piano, / adlibs a confusing speech…
JOY/DIVISION
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My center was soggy / coal composed of dead / hopes compressed in the peat / bog my chest was. / I kept my scrawny arms / folded in an X over…
HOW I STOPPED THE MASSACRE
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/ I turned their desks into kid-sized / tanks impervious to bullets, knives, / IED’s, mean words, and bad news. / / / I turned the…
My Definition of Rape
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(see also, Emily Kendal Frey's "My Definition of Rape") / / I have an engine larger than I am / Little candy pieces I…
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