Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publications in which these poems first appeared. Some, since their first appearance, have been revised in text or title:

American Poets & Poetry, “Breathing the Big Bang,” “Making Music”
Artword Quarterly, “Children”
Astrophysicist’s Tango Partner Speaks, The, “Gifts of Combustion,” “Lavender Tutor at the Fumarole,” “Lucy’s Riverine Forest”
Aurorean, The “Scorching the Tarmac,” “Goddess – Or Anima?” “Planaria et al,” “Cardinals,” “Mount Washington”
Avocet, “Clingstone Peach,” “Rock Garden Greenhouse,” “Mockingbird,” “Radiant Leaves of Rock,” "Scuffing Frost," "Eyes of Sun"
California Quarterly, “Longing of a Tributary”
Coffee & Chicory, “Knocking on His Rib Bones”
Connecticut Writer, “Quail Before the Saw”
Iconoclast, “No Nose for Pheromonal News”
Inlet, “Canada Warbler”
Laughing Boy Review, “Cicada in the Sycamore”
Lost Library of Alexandria, “Compost Song”
Midwest Poetry Review, “Tsunamis,” "Black-eyed Susans"
Mobius, “The News”
Mojo Risin', “Ant Dance,” “Skin of Winter,” “Thump-Thump in Sunlight”
Plastic Tower, "Skunking Yellow Jacks"
Poetry Digest, “Brook in the Sky,” “The Gap,” “Torrents of Intelligence”
Rattle, “Thirst”
Sidewalks, “September Salts”
Spillway, “Dome of Glorious Gravities”
Wise Woman's Garden, A, “Capriccio,” “Crow Song,” “Trajectory Over Salt Water Cells”
Yet Another Small Magazine, “The Birch and I”