Gravel and Hawk: Poems

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following magazines in which some of these poems originally appeared: 32 Poems: “Poolside, Late Afternoon” and “My Grandparents’ Victrola” Blue Collar Review: “Dinner” and “Winter Feeding” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review: “Mrs. Page” Concho River Review: “Clutch” Copper Nickel: “Second Person Singular” The Country Dog Review: “Houseboat at the Bottom of a Cove” and “Underpass” Kennesaw Review: “Early Hunting Trip” New Ohio Review: “At Sea” and “Illustration from an Early Reader” New South: “Cold Blood” and “Dreams of Parenthood” Red River Review: “Moving House,” “Main Street, from the Water Tower,” “Catfish Joint on the Red,” and “Diving below the Dam” Southwestern American Literature: “A.M.” storySouth: “Haying,” “Dead Cow,” and “Field Shed” Tar River Poetry: “Girl on a Horse” and “Swimming in a Stock Tank” The Texas Review: “Smolder” Waccamaw: “Incinerator” Western Humanities Review: “Treetop Love: An Ode” (as “Fellatio: An Ode”), “Afoot in the Fields,” “Church of Christ,” “Storm Cellar,” and “Nostalgia” “Jarring Honey” and “Stem” originally appeared in Science Meets Poetry, proceedings from the Euroscience Open Forum, Barcelona, 2008. “Moonwalk” originally appeared in Science Meets Poetry II, proceedings from the Euroscience Open Forum, Turin, 2010. x “Barn,” Filling Station,” and “Cemetery on U.S. 271” appeared first in Wrestle, a fine-press book produced in collaboration with the artist and master printer Erika Adams and with the support of a grant from Columbus State University. Thanks to my family for their ongoing support of my work, and to the following people for reading and offering advice on early versions of some of these poems: Susan Hrach, Erika Adams, Aaron Sanders, Graham Norwood, Grant Sisk, Ron Self, Stephen Self, Keith Badowski, Doraine Bennett. I’d like also to express my appreciation to Richard Howard for the direction he provided at an early and important stage in the writing of this book. And finally, to Mark Halliday, thank you very much. ...