Blue Heron

Acknowledgements

87 acknowledgements “Lynx Rufus” was published in Poetic Inventory. (“Large as a bird”) and (“Little man, do you”) were published in Zoland Magazine. (“The heron dies.”) appeared on the Counterpath Press website. Bombay Gin and Longhouse published the other sections of “Blue Heron.” “Cherimoya” appeared in Eoagh and “Quarry” was first published in Set. “The HingeTrees” was published in Conjunctions Online. “Hiburnaculum” was published as part of the chapbook Phrases/Fragments. “On Monsters” was first published as a Little Red Leaves,Textile Series Chapbook. Many thanks to the editors who first printed this work. My particular gratitude to Chana Bloch for a generous and insightful reading of this manuscript. I am grateful to the Lynden Sculpture Garden andWoodland Pattern in Milwaukee,Wisconsin, and the Djerassi Resident Artists’ Program inWoodside, California, for residencies that were instrumental to the development of this work. “The HingeTrees” is a response to Kevin Giese’s sculpture, “Immigrant,” which can be found at Lynden Sculpture Garden. This book is set in Centaur & Candara by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University. Copyediting by Brianna Rivers. Book design & typesetting by Anamika Dugger. Proofreading by Lincoln Greenhaw. Cover design by Kaelyn Riley. Printing by BookMobile. ...