Acknowledgements
“Forest/woman/alone” first appeared in Levee Magazine.
“Strangled whistles of my old lives” first appeared in Drunken Monkey Magazine.
“I excel at the construction of spirit limbs” first appeared in Chaotic Merge Magazine and was
nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
An early version of “better than anything I can offer sober” first appeared in Artful Dodge.
“bordertown” and “achilles” first appeared in West Texas Literary Review. “Bordertown” was
nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
“body farms and bridges” and “places to store unwanted adoration” first appeared in arc[hive].
“you are not what I want, thalasso” first appeared in Great Lakes Review.
“the leaves fell too hard and fast this October” first appeared in Hive Avenue Journal.
“stones and shockwaves” first appeared in Smartish Pace and was a finalist for the Beulah Rose
Prize.
“my cells are separating” first appeared in Perch Magazine.