Injecting Dreams into Cows

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InjectIng Dreams Into cows “This page intentionally left blank”. InjectIng Dreams Into cows poems by jessy ranDall Red Hen Press | pasaDena, ca Injecting Dreams into Cows Copyright © 2012 by Jessy Randall All Rights Reserved No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner. Book layout by John Nwagwu Book design by Mark E. Cull Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Randall, Jessy. Injecting dreams into cows : poems / by Jessy Randall.—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-59709-230-2 I. Title. PS3618.A625I55 2012 811’.6—dc23 2011050700 The Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the James Irvine Foundation, and the Ahmanson Foundation partially support Red Hen Press. First Edition Published by Red Hen Press www.redhen.org acknowleDgments Some of these poems first appeared in Asimov’s, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Denver Syntax, The Drunken Boat, Front Range Review, Georgetown Review, The Hat, Hiram Poetry Review, If Poetry Journal, Leviathan, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Matter, Megaera, Möbius, The Mom Egg, No Tell Motel, Nth Position, Ping-Pong, Poemeleon, Poetry Midwest, Press 1, Riding the Meridian, Robot Melon, Salt River Review, Sentence, Slow Trains, Snakeskin, Snowapple, Spooky Boyfriend, Squid Quarterly, Stirring, Tryst, Umbrella , Verse Wisconsin, Wicked Alice, and Zuzu’s Petals Quarterly. “The Librarian” first appeared in the chapbook Broken Heart Diet: Food Poems (Unicorn Press, 2006); “Kalypso Shuddered” first appeared in The Burden of the Beholder: Dave Armstrong & the Art of Collage (The Press at Colorado College, 2010); “Rare Blue Mad Boy” first appeared in the anthology Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined (3: A Taos Press, 2011); “Muppet Suite” first appeared in Two Weeks, an anthology from Linebreak magazine optimized for the Kindle, 2011. “This page intentionally left blank”. for Ross you are my love “This page intentionally left blank”. ...