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Note to the Reader

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clean off, brought icicles down. The boy listened for the sea.

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Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

The author gratefully acknowledges and thanks the following publications in which poems previously appeared:

Another and Another: An Anthology from The Grind Daily Writing

Series: “If They Hand Your Remains to Your Sister in a Chinese Takeout Box”

Atlanta Review: “Triage”

Blackbird: “Man Matching Description” and “Ask What I’ve Been”

Callaloo: “Pomegranate Means Grenade”

The Collagist: “If They Hand Your Remains to Your Sister in a Chinese Takeout Box,” “Macrophobia: Fear of Waiting,” and “Thinking Like a Split Melon”

The Cortland Review: “Mechanophobia: Fear of Machines”

The Drunken Boat: “The God Engine”

Foreign Policy in Focus: “Pomegranate Means Grenade”

The God Engine (Pudding House Press Chapbook Series, 2009): “Chionophobia: Fear of Snow,” “Coming Back for You,” “The Boy Who Bathes the Dead,” and “Paper Crane on Letting Go”

Gulf Coast: “On Metal” and “Thalassophobia: Fear of the Sea”

The Hairpin: “Hum for the Bolt”

Indiana Review: “Athazagoraphobia: Fear of Being Ignored”

The Kenyon Review: “The Sky, Now Black with Birds” and “The Hum of Zug Island”

The MacGuffin: “The Girl Who Builds Rockets from Bricks”

Mead: The Magazine of Literature and Libations: “Aichmophobia: Fear of Needles”

Michigan Quarterly Review: “A Detroit Hum Ending with Bones” and “Hum of the Machinist’s Lover”

Minnesota Review: “The Man Who Paints Mountains and Helicopters”

Muzzle Magazine: “I Do Have a Seam” and “Neat”

New England Review: “And Even the Living Are Lost” and “Hum for the Hammer”

The Normal School: “Hum for the Stone”

The Paris-American: “On Gentleness” and “Hum of the Machine God”

The Pedestal Magazine: “Paper Frog on Spring”

Ploughshares: “Masticated Light”

Poetry: “Hum for the Bolt”

Sixers Review: “How to Get Your Gun Safely Out of Your Mouth” and “How to Disappear Completely”

Southern Indiana Review: “Looks Like a Boy” and “Paper Tiger to Wind”

Spoon River Poetry Review: “Still Life”