With gratitude to the editors and readers at the following publications

where these poems first appeared, many in earlier versions.

From the manuscript of Fine Romances

First Date on a Blue Moon

The Hopkins Review

Age Before Beauty

One Art Poetry

Ancient Porn

The Hopkins Review

My City is Gone

Dash Literary

A Father’s Watch

PN Review

The Ventriloquist

The Hopkins Review

Twilight Time

The Robinson Jeffers Foundation

From the manuscript of A Blind Bit of Notice

On a Napkin

The New Criterion

Dish to Spoon

Alyson Press

Foreign Correspondent

Last Stanza

Gray Matters

The Irenaut

Last Spring

Bronze Bird Anthology IV

The Return of the Fly

Literary Imagination

From the manuscript of Classic Comics (light poems)

A Certain Impropriety

PN Review

Dear God:

The Soliloquist

Dorothy Parker’s Been Stood Up!

PN Review

Larger Than Life

RFD

Last Legs

The Hopkins Review

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