Acknowledgments:

Some of these poems, or versions of them, first appeared in:

The 2River View: “Saints of Electrocution”
Apalachee Quarterly: “The Man Who Slept on Roofs”
The Blue Door: “A Branch in Her Hands” and “She’s Wasn’t There”
Long Island Quarterly: “After the Blast”
POEM: “Half”

An earlier, very much different version of “Geppetto’s Other Boy” appeared in Festival of Dangerous Ideas (Unsolicited Press, 2019) as “Geppetto’s Smile.”