Study in Perfect (24 page)

(On Lying)

The poem “Our Other Sister” originally appeared in Jeffrey Harrison's
Feeding the Fire
(Louisville, Ky.: Sarabande Books, 2001).

The poem “Homesickness” appears in Sarah Gorham's
Bad Daughter
(New York: Four Way Books, 2011).

(A Drinker's Guide to
The Cat in the Hat)

The figure
Sources of Neurological Complications of Alcohol and Alcoholism
is from J. L. Bernat and M. Victor, “The Neurological Complications of Alcohol and Alcoholism.”
Alcohol Health and Research World
21, no. 1 (1997), 66.

Dr. Seuss,
The Cat in the Hat
(New York: Random House, 1957) and
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
(New York: Random House, 1958).

Lindsey B. Zachary, “Formalist and Archetypal Interpretations of
The Cat in the Hat
.”
www.jbu.edu/assets/academics/journal/resource/file/2008
.

(Sentimental à la Carte)

Figure
Mettigel
released into public domain by its author,
Stillife
, at the German Wikipedia project.

(The Shape of Fear)

Special thanks to Orlagh O'Brien and her website Emotionally} Vague, where I found the images for “The Shape of Fear”:
http://www.emotionallyvague.com/results_08.php
.

(Be There No Human Here)

R. C. Lasiewski,
The Energetics of Migrating Hummingbirds
. Condor 64 (1962): 324.

Thanks to Laura Jensen for the borrowing from her poem “Window Views,” which originally appeared in the collection
Shelter
(Port Townsend, Wash.: Dragon Gate Press, 1985).