W. Vandoren Wheeler was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He has
published poems in publications such as H_ngM_n, Forklift,
Swink and Conduit. His book The Accidentalist won the Dorothy Brunsman
Numb Psalm
If you are
love, then
bend her hand
around our
doorknob again.
Or, descend upon me
in a pillow-shaped cloud:
smother my useless breath.
Mop the rotten
wine I am spilled