A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages (16) is inspired by, and quotes from, the various plays, memoirs and interviews of Tennessee Williams.
Phonograph (53) is comprised of phrases taken from Pitman’s Short-hand Instructor.
Casida of the Dead Sun (55): The epigraph from Federico García Lorca’s ‘Casida of the Recumbent Woman’ is translated by Michael Smith.
A Most Satisfactory Dreamlife (70) is indebted to Anne Carson’s The Glass Essay from which many of its lines, words and phrases have been taken.