Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following periodicals in which these poems first appeared or will appear, sometimes in different forms:
Agni Review: Steinberg Case (originally “His Shadow”)
American Poetry Review: Old Ice, Dark Existence, Black Series, The Servant, December Shadow, January Dawn, March Dawn, Blossoms Appearing, Every Life, A Vigil, First Thought, Adult Joy, Gnostic Heaven, Magdalene, Little Furnace
Antaeus: Dark Matter
The Berkeley Voice: The Rat
The Denver Quarterly: Sorrow of Matter
Epoch: Branch, Scraping, Luminous Textures, and an untitled fragment, (—Why did you tremble . . .)
Equinox: Three untitled fragments, (—Who wounded you . . .), (While I slept you stood . . .), and (—In the cave of the self . . .)
Estero: Vast Fluttering, The Snakeskin
The Nation: Trapped Light
The New Yorker: A Foghorn
The Paris Review: Meridian Plinth, Autumn Moon
Partisan Review: Torn Shadow
Ploughshares: The Spell, Small Spaces
River Styx: Several Errands
The Taos Review: Marshy Area, Useful Shadow, Empty Shadow
Tikkun: Holding On
The Threepenny Review: Food, Toll Collector
ZYZZYVA: Mighty Forms, Recycling Center, Spare World
Pushcart Prize XVI reprinted Mighty Forms.
Many thanks to Alex, Fran, James, Joe, John, and Roland.