With gratitude to Peter Warshall, MaelstrÖm reEvolution, the Tamaas foundation, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, The Brooklyn Rail, Bhanu Kapil, Ambrose Bye, Pat Steir, Alexis Myre, Elliot Colla, Sawko Nakayasu, David Gitlen, Apsara DiQuinzio, and Gina Maher, who in her generosity gave home and shelter to this writing. Making up a small portion of the work are lines from Entanglement (2009) and The Value of Small Skeletons (2011), movies by Ed Bowes and several pages appear in The Air We Breathe: Artists and Poets Reflect on Marriage Equality. Also, sincere gratitude to my editor, Paul Slovak, who has supported my poetry for many years.