Lucky Bones

Acknowledgments

84 Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publications in which some of these poems have appeared: Amber Mist: “Walking by the Dalí Museum,” under the title “Walking on Birds”; Antioch Review: “Cassandra in the Library,” under the title “Blood Is Simple,” and “On Completing My PhD”; Cantilever: “Traveling”; CCL Newsletter: “Father and Child”; Christian Century: “John Dove”; Crosscurrents: “Old Backboards”; Eckerd Review: “The Campaign,” “Emily Dickinson Thinks about Buying a Ribbon,” and “Nodding”; Ekphrasis: “Impressionist”; El Urogallo: “Nodding,” in Spanish titled “Al Borde”; Enigmatist: “Of Course”; Fiddler Crab: “Trucking”; 5 A.M.: “Skipping Stones”; Gulf Stream: “For Willie Mays”; Heliotrope: “SkyDiving ”; Laurel Review: “It Beats TV” and “The Lover”; Lightning Key Review: “Heartworld”; The Line-Up: Poems on Crime: “The Firebug”; mOOn: “D. E. A. T. H.”; OCHO: “The Family Megashelter” and “Front-Rhymed Easter Anti-Sonnet”; Offshoots (Geneva): “Sunday Brunch at Point Lookout”; Plume: “The Floss-Silk Tree and the Philodendron” and “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi”; Poetry Now: “Indian Legend”; Red Mud Review: “Charity Recital”; Sandhill Review: “Gangsters,” “Lucky Bones,” and “The Devil’s Paintbrush”; Saw Palm: “Mirror Lake” and “Old Houses”; Smartishpace: “The Activist”; Snake Nation Review: “Ants, Ants”; South Florida Review: “Habit”; Stringtown: “Mountain Man”; Tampa Review: “Drive-by Shooting,” “Epitaph,” and “Habemus Papam”; White Pelican Review: “Unbearable Lightness”; Windless Orchard: “The Chattaway.” Seventeen of these poems appeared in a chapbook, Lassing Park, published by Yellow Jacket Press (Tampa, Florida) in 2011. ...