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Acknowledgments With deep gratitude for my teachers Norman Dubie, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Jeannine Savard, and Cynthia Hogue, for their help with these poems. Thank you to Arizona State University’s creative writing program and to Karla Elling, for giving me the time and the support needed to write this book. Respect and gratitude to my friends and fellow poets Laura Cruser, Mary Kay Zeeb, and Todd Fredson for their insight and assistance with these poems. Grateful acknowledgment to the editors and readers of the following journals in which these poems first appeared, sometimes in slightly different form: Barrow Street: “Ease”; Blackbird: “Breastfeeding across America,” “Horses Remember How,” “Are you expressing a desire to know me?” “Mark Time,” “Night Bath, Sagittarius,” “The Cow Can’t Fear Something Eternal”; Colorado Review: “Cold red tiles. Red-hot bath.”; Diner: “Please come”; How2: “The disappearing movement,” “Tweeting the Midnight Line,” “Sauna Morning”; Natural Bridge: “Originally, the earth was loving-water”; SHADE: “Being a Great Believer in Cooling,” “Heartbreakingly small when you sleep”; Stirring: “Teacup”; Wascana Review of Contemporary Poetry and Short Fiction: “I am surprised, that means,” “Something of an award”; You help your cat “face its fear” (Chapbook, Breeds Like a Rumrunner Press): “The Love Story of Monkey and Bear: Aerial Map,” “Pressure-Ridges,” “The Silting-Up,” “Speech of my lost twin,” “You help your cat ‘face its fear,’” “For Romell, the boy with the hair between his teeth,” “Little girls and horses,” “Kunsthistorisches Museum,” “Blue-Eyed Horse,” “Oh come on now,” “Eating Nuts Helps the Memory” (now titled “What position you’re in if you’re looking at the sole of a heel”), and “Push-off Sideways.” [44.199.212.254] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 15:33 GMT) ...