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Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following publications where earlier versions of these poems first appeared: Ascent: “Hide and Seek” Boston Literary Review: “Speculation in Dark Air Smoking” Chariton Review: “Apparitions, Approximations, Appearances,” “Clearances ,” “Elizabeth Goose in Autumn,” “North Beach Sweet,” “Skibbereen Deeds,” “Tales of the Weather” Illinois Review: “At Les Deux Magots Restaurant” The Madison Review: “Unclaimed Freight” New American Writing: “At the Lifeboat Races,” “Marginal Extravaganzas ,” “Opus Focus” Notre Dame Review: “Anointing the Unprepared,” “Chronicle of Choices” Oxford Review: “Notes for the Interior Escape,” “The Rainy Season Arrives in Southern Kyushu” Poetry Now: “At the Club Hula,” “Dispensations for an Afternoon Rain” Rhino: “To the Dogs” Rust Belt Review: “An Oral History of the East Side,” “City without Archipelago,” “Fanfare for a Cocktail,” “High on the Flats,” “Love in the Solarium,” “Manholes,” “Midnight Symphonies,” “River through the City,” “Trespasses” The Sewanee Review: “Art of a Cold Sun,” “Bugatti’s Zoo,” “True Stories about Color” Slant: A Journal of Poetry: “The Unsung Song of Harry Duffy” Story Quarterly: “At the Corner Bar at the End of Idle Street” Sulphur River Literary Review: “In Praise of Invisibility,” “Moon Snow,” “Facts about Unlucky Times” Tamaqua: “The Seconds” (all 13 parts) TriQuarterly: “Crawfordsville Confidential” Willow Review: “Long Story Short” [3.145.206.169] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 05:34 GMT) To Mary Heffron Murray— Mother, Model (role and fashion), Reader and Teacher of the Love of the Word ...

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