Sympathetic Magic

Acknowledgments

xi Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgement is made to the editors of the following publications, in which these poems first appeared: 32 Poems: “Here in Topeka” 200 New Mexico Poems: “Pacheco Burn” American Literary Review: “Sympathetic Magic” Copper Nickel: “Elk Skeleton” Crazyhorse: “Ablution” and “Two Solitudes” descant: “Vigil” Flint Hills Review: “Sky Judge” and “Hospital Time” Flyway: “First Morel,” “At the Geographic Center,” “A Brief History of Barbed Wire,” and “When at Last I Join” Kansas City Star: “See You in the Funny Papers” Kansas City Voices: “Assumptions” and “Galileo’s Finger” Measure: “The Head of St. Catherine” Midwest Quarterly: “Home Altar” Mikrokosmos: “At Thirty-Five” and “Magnetic Resonance” minnesota review: “The Fort” River Styx: “Penmanship” seven-eight-five: “Verdure” and “Vocabulary of Ashes” Southern Indiana Review: “In a Foreign City,” “Sister Anonymous,” “Specimens” and “Spiritus Mundi” “Here in Topeka” and “Spiritus Mundi” appeared in Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems (Woodley Press, 2011). “Assumptions” appeared in In Their Cups: Poems about Drinking Places, Drinks, and Drinkers (Harvard Common Press, 2010). Some of the poems in this collection were included in the chapbook Reliquaries of the Lesser Saints (RopeWalk Press, 2010). Warmest thanks go to Tom Averill, Jacob Blevins, Allen Braden, Karen Chase, Neil Connelly, Robin Getzen, Jeffrey Ann Goudie, Ruth Goudie, Howard Faulkner, Keagan LeJeune, Justin Marable, Ron Mitchell, Margy Stewart, and John Wood for their generous support. I offer my deepest gratitude to my family, especially Paula and Eldon Fleury, Mark Fleury, and Derek Blakeley for their abiding love. I am also profoundly grateful to Jon Tribble, whose integrity, generosity, and dedication are an inspiration. xii I especially thank the Berkshire Taconic Foundation/Amy Clampitt Fund for the gift of time and space in Amy’s house, where many of these poems were written. ...