from Spider Vein Impasto: Gun and Knife

Spider Vein Impasto was one of Juliet Cook's singular, hand-crafted print journals in the late Aughts. I weighed in, in this particular collection, with Gun and Knife, which later showed up in the 2010 Mipo chapbook Returns. The dedication to John Tranter suggested itself to me because Tranter's sense of humor, expressed in his work, is an intriguingly dark one, and this one turned out to be dark, too.

The Seattle Star: The Ballad of Robert Johnson: October 10, 2018

Cheltenham Elegy #261: As/Is: October 10, 2011

Cheltenham Elegy #420: The Seattle Star: April 3, 2019

Apparition Poem #1488: The Seattle Star: January 29, 2015

Truck: Cheltenham

Though they happen not to be elegies, these two stalwart Apparition Poems, later conflated, appeared in the '12 Blazevox ed. of Cheltenham, and also in Halvard Johnson's Truck in the fall of '11.

The Helios MSS

The mid-Teens arrival of The Helios Mss was a quiet one. It issued from Raymond Farr, who'd founded, among other things, Blue & Yellow Dog Press, which by 2018 had published two editions of my Equations. My two entries from The Helios Mss consist of a late-era Apparition Poem, to be included in later editions of Apparition Poems, and a Chicago-themed sonnet from Something Solid.