This poem are from Joe Wenderoth’s fourth book of poems, If I Don’t Breathe How Do I Sleep, which is forthcoming from Wave Books in 2014. He edits Inscriptions Of The Seizure State (in Gigantic), and produces its podcast, About Brett Favre. This podcast, along with an archive of public readings and otherwise recorded audio, can be found at Internet Archive. His films can be found on YouTube. Wenderoth is Professor of English at UC Davis, where he teaches in the Creative Writing graduate program.