The Body's Heated Speech  
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Acknowledgements

• A Core Course for Runners, Cicadas, The Run to Picnic Point, The Runner, and Listening to Cicadas were published in various editions of the Wisconsin Poets' Calendar.
• Wild sky appeared in Trains and Rain: Poems of Lust, Dust, Rust and Obsession by Lonesome Traveller Publishing.
• James with His Prize-Winning Chicken was published in Möbius.

References

• A Still Life by Van Gogh was inspired by Vase with Irises Against a Yellow Background.
• "Adam's House" refers to a watercolor by Edward Hopper. 
• James with His Prize-Winning Chicken considers the photo on the dust jacket of Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest.
• Picnic Point––a favorite destination for runners in Madison, Wisconsin––is part of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve on the UW-Madison campus. Lake Mendota and Picnic Point were featured on the cover of Joni Mitchell's album, Hejira.

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