Thanks to the editors of the following journals, where some of these poems, occasionally in slightly different form, first appeared:
Anti- : ‘icarus,’ ‘melancholia is a collective noun,’ ‘watermark’
Chiron Review : ‘chokecherry’
>kill author : ‘anodyne,’ ‘tantric’
LiteraryMary : ‘without edges’
Makeout Creek : ‘precious’
Nerve Cowboy : ‘untitled #19,’ ‘like a neil young song’
Oak Bend Review :’hurricane season’
Prism Review : ‘eleemosynary,’ ‘hexagram’
Tipton Poetry Journal : ‘fiddler’s hearth – summer, 2009’
Writers’ Bloc : ‘caryatid’
Thanks also to NB and DDL for all their help with earlier drafts of many of these poems.