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THREE SHORT POEMS
by Joe Wenderoth
Hospice
whose is the ligature
closing up
the mirror?
that is where they recover
—the patients—
in the sewn-up
mirror
The Residue
I find myself sometimes,
evening,
in a strange costume,
a costume from another age.
No one is looking.
I'm driving to the store, singing.
My voice is all imitation soft,
decay upon decay.
This evening is distant applause.
Decay upon decay.
American Prayer
vision
to the tired
sniper
muscle
to the humming
grave
diggers
Joe Wenderoth's
first
two books of poems, Disfortune (1995) and It Is If I Speak
(2000), are both from Wesleyan
University Press .
Shortline Editions published a chapbook, The Endearment (1999),
and Letters To Wendy's, is due out in the winter (2000) from Verse
Press. He is an assistant professor of English at Southwest State University
in Marshall, Minnesota.
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