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Acknowledgements

A Core Course for Runners, Cicadas, The Run to Picnic Point, The Runner, I Keep a Wooden Buddha and Listening to Cicadas were published in various editions of the Wisconsin Poets' Calendar.

Wild sky appeared in Trains and Rain: Poems of Lust, Dust, Rust and Obsession by Lonesome Traveller Publishing.

James with His Prize-Winning Chicken was published in Mobius.

References

A Still Life by Van Gogh was inspired by Vase with Irises Against a Yellow Background.

"Adam's House" refers to a watercolor by Edward Hopper. 

James with His Prize-Winning Chicken considers the photo on the dust jacket of Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest.

Picnic Point, a favorite destination for runners, is part of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve on the UW-Madison campus. Picnic Point and Lake Mendota were featured on the cover of Joni Mitchell's album, Hejira.
 

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