With gratitude to the editors and readers at the following publications where these poems first appeared, many in earlier versions.
THE RETURN OF THE FLY
Literary Imagination
AGE BEFORE BEAUTY
ONE ART: A Journal of Poetry
GRAY MATTERS
The Irenaut
FAREWELL TO A MODEL
Queer Life, Queer Love
LAST LEGS
The Hopkins Review
MY CITY IS GONE
Dash Literary Journal
DISH TO SPOON
Gents, Bad Boys & Barbarians, Vol. I
A FATHER’S WATCH
PN Review
ON A NAPKIN
The New Criterion