Gnawed Bones

Acknowledgments

107 a C K n o w l e d G m e n T s many thanks to the editors and publishers who first welcomed this work, sometimes in different versions. Alaska Quarterly review: “Bugler, ft. wainwright, alaska,” “what next” The American Poetry review: “Chatanika,” “wilderness” Arizona Highways: “ocotillo” Ascent: “pale woman on stretcher,” “a Brief aside,” “narrow roads to/from the Interior,” “missing,” “lapse,” “Hard stick,” “shower,” “Good sign,” “That painting I didn’t Buy” Blackbird: “deliverance,” “Kus-sun-ar” The Book of Words, sarabande: “dive, Three definitions” canwehaveourballback?: “pheasant” Copper Nickel: “long Before we Got Here, long after we’re Gone,” “our mother of sorrows” Crab Creek review: “what we Get Used To” Crab Orchard review: “smoke,” “nests, an elegy” Crazyhorse: “land fraud nosebleed” Flyway: “polished Table” The Gettysburg review: “Chickens,” “Ha Ha Ha,” “no sign” The Iowa review: “oatmeal,” “strokes” Junctures (new Zealand): “polished Table” Manoa: “The provider” Poetry Kantu (Japan): “when Ground Cannot Take in more rain” Prairie Schooner: “desert odyssey,” “Touch and Go,” “always the entertainer,” “rinsing that Tomato,” “radio Control,” “Upset woman,” “In praise, ephemera,” “Glyphs on a limestone stela,” “You should Know Better” 108 Salt river review: “all the mustaches on all the Judases,” “Horny Toads” Seattle review: “naming what we Hold in our Hand” Spirituality and Health: “July Twilight on the Chena” Thanalonline: “Beyond words, This language” Water~Stone: “portal” Weber Studies: “mother Tongue” “oatmeal” was included in Poetry Daily Essentials 2007, diane Boller and don selby, editors, and also in the Seren anthology Women’s Work, featuring writers from the UK, Us, nZ and australia, amy wack and eva salzman, editors. Verse Daily monthly feature, “deliverance” a letterpress broadside printed by Heather neal Kasvinsky, with painting “Bright Tracks” by Kesler woodward, features “long Before we Got Here, long after we’re Gone.” Broadside was part of the alaska state Council on the arts 2009 alaska arts and Culture Conference. “In praise, ephemera” was exhibited at the Chicago Cultural Center as part of Collaborative visions: the poetic dialogues project. I collaborated with visual artist laura ann Cloud. prose versions of some of this material appeared in Just Breathe Normally, University of nebraska press, 2007. Thank you to the many friends who offered help, sustenance, laughter. ...