Many thanks to the editors of the following journals in which these poems first appeared, some in slightly different form and under different titles.
American Poetry Review: “Black Hills”; Asheville Poetry Review: “Post-Op”; Blackbird: “Everything Happens to Me”; The Café Review: “Breaking Your Leg in Four Places”; The Common: “Caution in the Windy City, Thrown”; The Georgia Review: “Dear Virgo: ‘Heart murmurs, thyroids…,’” “Dear Virgo: ‘I feel sorry for you, friend…,’” “Dear Virgo: ‘I’m getting tired of telling you…,’” “Dear Virgo: ‘It’s not the first time…,’” “Dear Virgo: ‘This morning you woke…,’” “Dear Virgo: ‘You forget, this world is broken…,’” “Dear Virgo: ‘Your life is like a 4-star hotel…,’” and “Dear Virgo: ‘You were a tourist in the land…’”; The Massachusetts Review: “The Dead Man Returns Disguised as a Tour Guide” and “To You Who Lost Your Father”; Miramar: “Dear Virgo: ‘Fourteen broken ribs…’” and “Dear Virgo: ‘The scars, the doorframe…’”; Mixitini Matrix: “Beginner’s Guide to a Head-On Collision” and “In Praise of the Ribcage”; Poems & Plays: “Jaws of Life,” “Ode to the First Crash-Test Dummies,” and “Watching Her at the Threshold.”