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      8  LONG PIG

      9  BEING IN THIS WORLD MAKES ME FEEL LIKE A TIME TRAVELER

      10  AGAINST DYING

      11  PORTRAIT OF THE ALCOHOLIC WITH RELAPSE FANTASY

      12  ORCHIDS ARE SPROUTING FROM THE FLOORBOARDS

      13  THE NEW WORLD

      14  AGAINST HELL

      15  PALMYRA

      16  UNBURNABLE THE COLD IS FLOODING OUR LIVES

      17  PORTRAIT OF THE ALCOHOLIC FROZEN IN BLOCK OF ICE

      18  NEITHER NOW NOR NEVER

      19  EVERYTHING THAT MOVES IS ALIVE AND A THREAT—A REMINDER

      20  WHAT USE IS KNOWING ANYTHING IF NO ONE IS AROUND

      21  NO IS A COMPLETE SENTENCE

       III. Irons

      1  PORTRAIT OF THE ALCOHOLIC FLOATING IN SPACE WITH SEVERED UMBILICUS

      2  AN APOLOGY

      3  THE STRAW IS TOO LONG, THE AXE IS TOO DULL

      4  MY KINGDOM FOR A MURMUR OF FANFARE

      5  EVERY DRUNK WANTS TO DIE SOBER IT’S HOW WE BEAT THE GAME

      6  TASSIOPEIA

      7  PORTRAIT OF THE ALCOHOLIC WITH CRAVING

      8  FUGU

      9  RIVER OF MILK

      10  GOD

      11  DESPITE THEIR SIZE CHILDREN ARE EASY TO REMEMBER THEY WATCH YOU

      12  WAYS TO HARM A THING

      13  PERSONAL INVENTORY: FEARLESS (TEMPORIS FILA)

      14  SO OFTEN THE BODY BECOMES A DISTRACTION

      15  I WON’T LIE THIS PLAGUE OF GRATITUDE

      16  PORTRAIT OF THE ALCOHOLIC STRANDED ALONE ON A DESERT ISLAND

        About the Publisher

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      A great debt of gratitude is owed to the editors of the following publications where these poems first appeared, often in earlier versions:

      The Adroit Journal: “Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Inpatient)”

      AGNI: “God”

      American Poetry Review: “Being in This World Makes Me Feel Like a Time Traveler,” “Best Shadows,” “Exciting the Canvas”

      At Length: “Drinkaware Self-Report”

      Bennington Review: “Wild Pear Tree,” “Desunt Nonnulla,”

      Black Warrior Review: “I Won’t Lie This Plague of Gratitude”

      BOAAT: “Neither Now nor Never”

      Boston Review: “Portrait of the Alcoholic with Craving”

      Copper Nickel: “Portrait of the Alcoholic with Doubt and Kingfisher”

      Denver Quarterly: “Thirstiness Is Not Equal Division,” “Portrait of the Alcoholic Frozen in Block of Ice”

      Diagram: “So Often the Body Becomes a Distraction”

      Diode: “Portrait of the Alcoholic with Withdrawal”

      FIELD: “What Seems Like Joy”

      Guernica: “Tassiopeia”

      Gulf Coast: “Fugu”

      Harvard Divinity Bulletin: “Soot”

      Hayden’s Ferry Review: “Personal Inventory: Fearless (Temporis Fila)”

      Indiana Review: “Portrait of the Alcoholic with Home Invader and Housefly”

      The Journal: “Orchids Are Sprouting from the Floorboards”

      jubilat: “Besides, Little Goat, You Can’t Just Go Asking for Mercy”

      The Literary Review: “Everything That Moves Is Alive and a Threat—a Reminder”

      Lit Hub: “Long Pig”

      The Los Angeles Review: “Portrait of the Alcoholic Stranded Alone on a Desert Island”

      Muzzle: “Supplication with Rabbit Skull and Bouquet”

      Narrative: “Do You Speak Persian?”

      Nashville Review: “Portrait of the Alcoholic Three Weeks Sober”

      New England Review: “No Is a Complete Sentence”

      The New Yorker: “What Use Is Knowing Anything if No One Is Around”

      The Offing: “Palmyra”

      PANK: “The Straw Is Too Long, the Axe Is Too Dull”

      Ploughshares: “Yeki Bood, Yeki Nabood,” “Ways to Harm a Thing”

      Poetry:

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