ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I am grateful to the editors and staff of the following publications, where the poems in this book first appeared: American Poetry Review, The Asian American Literary Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Cerise Press, Diode, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, Memorious, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, The Threepenny Review, Tin House, Tongue, TriQuarterly, Waxwing, West Branch Wired, ZYZZYVA.

      “Child Holding Potato” was reprinted in The Best American Poetry 2012 (Scribner). “Ode: 1975,” “Ode: 1986,” and “Particle and Wave” were reprinted in Field of Mirrors: An Anthology of Philippine American Writers (PAWA Press). “Election Song” was reprinted in In Tahoma’s Shadow (Exquisite Disarray Publishing). “Whidbey Island” was reprinted in Alive at the Center (Ooligan Press). “After Darwish,” “Inventory,” and “The Poem Is a Letter Opener” were reprinted in The Rag-Picker’s Guide to Poetry: Poems, Poets, Process (University of Michigan Press). “Looking at the Romans” was reprinted on Poetry Daily. “Brown Refrigerator” was reprinted on Verse Daily.

      I am indebted to the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and Pacific Lutheran University. Last but nowhere least, my thanks to the good people of Sarabande Books for their continuing support of my work.

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      I have seen the black sheets laid out like carpets

      under the trees, catching the rain

      of olives as they fell. Also the cerulean brightness

      of the one covering the bad roof

      of a neighbor’s shed, the color the only color

      inside the winter’s weeks. Another one

      took the