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95 Acknowledgments My thanks to the editors of the following journals or publications in which these poems first appeared, sometimes in different form. American Literary Review: “Two Sounds after an October Storm” The American Poetry Review: “The Poet Stumbles upon a Buddha in Gamelands 158 above Tipton, Pennsylvania” Appalachia: “Give Us This Day,” “Heaven Come Flying” (as “Thoreau Listens for the Warblers”), and “The Virtues of Indolence” (as “In Praise of Indolence”) Artful Dodge: “Coal” Atlanta Review: “The Sound of Sunlight” and “Heliotropic” Blueline: “Atrial Fibrillation” and “Most of What Is Written Is Simply Grief” Chautauqua: “The Knowledge of the Lord,” “Limbo,” “Missing Boy,” “Perigee,” “Seeing Things,” and “Transfiguration” Christianity and Literature: “Last Bones of Winter” Cold Mountain Review: “Morning Poem” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact: “Thoreau, in Death” and “In the Kingdom of the Ditch” Crab Creek Review: “Not Writing, Then Writing Again” and “Ordinary Time” Ecotone: “Nurse Log” Ekphrasis: “The Last of the Sea” 5 AM: “A Prayer for My Sons, after a Line of Reported Conversation by the Poet William Blake to a Child Seated Next to Him at a Dinner Party” Flyway: “Spring Melt” Folio: “Resurrection: A Field Note” The Fourth River: “Hawks Flying” 96 The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review: “Apophatic” and “I’ll Catch You Up” Image: “Midrash” The Journal: “Fishing for Large Mouth in a Strip-Mining Reclamation Pond near Lloydsville, Pennsylvania” Kestrel: “Deer Dreaming Me” Natural Bridge: “Taxonomy” Naugatuck River Review: “In the Backseat” (Part III of “Three Songs for Flannery O’Connor”) New Madrid: “The Consolation of Wind” and “Vigil” Nimrod: International Journal of Poetry & Prose: “Somnambulance” The North American Review: “Perspective” Orion: “Dona Nobis Pacem” Poet Lore: “Thoreau Hears the Last Warbler at the End of September” Poetry East: “Thoreau Considers a Stone” Quarterly West: “Thinking of Li Po while Fishing the Little J” Rhubarb Magazine: “Begging Bowl,” “Crow Counsels Me in the Ways of Love,” “Offering, as One Example, the Satisfaction of the Bee” (as “The Waxen Comb of Delight”), and “Transfiguration” River Styx: “What I Told My Sons after My Father Died” Seminary Ridge Review: “Brushwolf” Shenandoah: “The Girl Who Taught a Chicken to Walk Backwards” (Part I of “Three Songs for Flannery O’Connor”) Sou’wester: “The Gospel of Beauty” Tar River Poetry: “Imago Dei” and “Umbilical” Third Coast: “Hermetic” Via Negativa: “Letter to Dave B. with May’s Insatiable Hunger Tagging Along” and “Letter to Dave B. from the Karen Noonan Center on the Chesapeake Bay” Water~Stone Review: “Meditation on Hunger at 2 a.m.” West Branch Wired: “A Consideration of the Word ‘Home’” and “When the Body Is Absent” 97 “A Mennonite in the Garden” first appeared in the anthology, Tongue Screws and Testimonies: Poems, Stories, and Essays Inspired by The Martyr’s Mirror, edited by Kirsten Beachy (Herald Press, 2010). “I’ll Catch You Up” and “The Girl Who Taught a Chicken to Walk Backwards” were also featured on Poetry Daily. Some of the poems in the second section of In the Kingdom of the Ditch appeared in a limited edition chapbook, Household of Water, Moon, and Snow: The Thoreau Poems (Seven Kitchens Press, 2010). The epigraph by K. A. Hays is from “Migration” which originally appeared in Dear Apocalypse (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009). Thanks to the following people for their encouragement and advice in the making of these poems and this book: Rick Bass, Martha Bates, Lori Bechtel-Wherry, Ervin Beck, Chris and Brian Black, Paula Bohince, Marcia and Bruce Bonta, Dave Bonta, David Budbill, Jim Daniels, Joyce and Harold Davis, Shelly Davis, Chris Dombrowski, David James Duncan, Don Flenar, Don and Punky Fox, Dan Gerber, K. A. Hays, William Heyen, Jane Hirshfield, Don and Melinda Lanham, Virginia Kasamis, Helen Kiklevich, Mary Linton, Carolyn Mahan, Ron Mohring, Dinty Moore, Erin Murphy, Mary Rose O’Reilley, Ben Percy, Lee Peterson, Jack Ridl, Dave Shumate, Michael Simms, Annette Tanner, Jack Troy, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, and Ken Womack. Many of these poems were finished with the help of generous grants from Pennsylvania State University. ...