Calamity Joe

Title Page, Copyright, Acknowledgments, Dedication

•Calamity Joe• Thispageintentionallyleftblank. •Calamity Joe• Poems by Brendan Constantine Red Hen Press |Pasadena,California Acknowledgements Theauthorgratefullyacknowledgesthepublishersofperiodicals,anthologies,andchapbooksinwhich someofthesepoemsfirstappeared: 2River View, “The Boy Has Come Back” & “I Dreamt I Was Your Finger”; Antenna, “Joe Dreams Of The Old Man & The Sea” (published as “A Dream About Going”); The Bicycle Review, “The Legend of Joe (Just then a team of child Archeologists . . . )”; The Boxcar Poetry Review, “Flight Out Of Guest Bedroom”; Bright Wings: An Anthology of Poems About Birds, “Rara Avis”; The Cortland Review, “Litany”; Crimewave, “The Body”, “Dies Irae”; Dante’s Casino, “New Math”; Ducts.org, “A Horse Named Death”; Ploughshares, “Difficult Listening Time”; Redivider, “Before The Flood”; Verse Wisconsin, “The Legend of Joe (What the hell else was he gonna do . . .)”, Zombie Dovecote, “In The Shrine Of The Mynah Bird”. Thispageintentionallyleftblank. ForMaryKatherineByrne 1955–2011 Thispageintentionallyleftblank. ...