Sub-atomic Press [email protected] Copyright © by Rustin Larson, 2025 Acknowledgments Thanks is given to the editors of these journals where some of the poems in this book first appeared: The Comstock Review, “The Blue Plastic Buffalo” Illya's Honey, “I Changed My Mind About God” Midway Journal, “How to Capture a Summer” Lothlorien Poetry Journal, “Chet Baker,” “The Muse,” “Juxtaposition in Iowa, 1966,” “I Buy Some...” “New Cat,” “Belle and JC,” “Rough,” “Owls,” “A Life in the Opera,” “Steady Hum,” “Sleepy, Sleepy Snails,”Classical Radio,” The Lilac Bush, 1966,” “10 Cents,” “Another New Year's Jazz,” “Cafe Time,” “Pucker Piccolo Penny Whistle,” “My Mother's Family,” “Out of Sequence” Alien Buddha, “Black Rabbit,” “Lute Broadcast,” “Vivaldi, Vivaldi, Vivaldi” Exit 13, “Uncertainty” Last Stanza Poetry Journal, “The Lilac Bush, Again” Oddball Magazine, “Wednesday's Child”