Blood Orbits

      Ger Killeen

      Parlor Press

      Anderson, South Carolina

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      Parlor Press LLC, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906

      © 2009 by Parlor Press

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      Printed in the United States of America

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Killeen, Ger, 1960-

      Blood orbits / Ger Killeen.

      p. cm. -- (Free verse editions)

      ISBN 978-1-60235-123-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-124-0 (adobe ebook)

      I. Title.

      PR6061.I35B56 2009

      821’.914--dc22

      2009032567

      Cover art: Excavation I. Acrylic on Paper. © 2007 by Saba H. Qizilbash. Use by permission.

      Printed on acid-free paper.

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