~ Acknowledgements ~

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by Ajay-Kumar

by Ajay-Kumar

Some versions of some of these poems were first published in the following journals -

1. 'bliss station', 'over the square nest' & 'all at once' in SCP's CircleShow

2. 'waiting waiting', 'your eyes are meh, sometimes pregnant', 'body and sole' & 'metamorphosis'. in EskimoPie

3. 'angulimaal', fire medicine', '& the cycle chain slips', & 'spills' in Scarlet Leaf Review

4. 'there are still match sellers' & 'beat blue green' in The Ekphrastic Review

5. ' the monday-sun coughs on my shoulder' & 'six feet over' in Eunoia Review

6. 'on a tree' in Uppagus

7. 'just after a hook-shot over fine leg' & 'geographically true'. in Soul-lit

8. 'beach', 'becauses' & 'leaf meet button, button meet leaf' in Literary Yard

9. 'a guide to lighthouses' & 'planetary orbits' in Street Light Press

10. 'lost count' in Leaves of Ink

11. 'I nod in company, I wake at night' in Runcible Spoon

12. 'the garden at the end of the forest 'grey, & other inflammable objects' and 'where two things meet' in Isacoustic

13. 'run' in Amethyst Review

14. 'looking in' in The Pangolin Review

15. 'new island revealed by melting glaciers' in Dream Noir

16. 'first, the boy sings & then the girl sings' & 'erasmus Darwin, on the night he refused king George III, & me, aged 14' in Rat's Ass Review

17. 'the falling' in The Shore

18. 'a christmas song located somewhere in south india' in Squawk Back

19. 'slipping into my father as a room' in Praxis

20. 'kallar elephant corridor, western Ghats', 'sky tree water' & 'as simple as that' in Plum Tree Tavern

21. 'mountains of blue-red bones' & 'gods of those points of light' in Vita Brevis

22. 'an index of visitors' in Rattle, winner of Jan 2020 ekphrastic challenge

23. 'height horizontal' in The Daphne Review

24. 'rama's exile', 'sweet lingering thing', and 'a prophetess' in Literary Yard

25. ''to the twilightpool', 'the firefly', 'consumer', and 'one movement' in Gulmohur quarterly

26. 'staining','almost crossing the length of almost', and, 'domains' in nether quarterly

27. 'obelisk', and 'panaroma' in The Bombay Review

28. 'namakarana' in The Alipore Post

29. 'machinery threads' in Glass Mountain