PERMEABLE DIVIDE
ALSO BY ELLEN RACHLIN
Waiting for Here (Finishing Line Press, 2004)
Until Crazy Catches Me (Antrim House, 2008)
Captive to Residue (Flarestack Publishing, 2009)
Poems by
Ellen Rachlin
Copyright © 2017 by Ellen Rachlin
Except for short selections reprinted for purposes of book review, all reproduction rights are reserved.
Requests for permission to replicate should be addressed to the publisher.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017940864
ISBN: 978-1-943826-35-3
e-book edition, 2017
Book design by Rennie McQuilkin
Front cover painting by Mark Lijftogt,
“Seed Bottle with Ranunculus and Apples”
Author photograph by William Louis-Dreyfus
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For Lauren Rachlin and Nancy Posluns
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Grateful acknowledgment to the editors of the following publications in which certain poems in this volume first appeared, some in earlier versions:
Art Times: “Changes”
Court Green: “Confident”
Granta and The Los Angeles Review: ”Supernovae”
The Iconoclast: “The Card Reading”
Literary Imagination: “Measure”
Small Brushes: “Naked at the Fast and French” and “Preserve” (as “Reserve”)
Literary Matters: “Business Page,” ”How to Avoid a Scam” and ”Inside”
Obsessed With Pipework: “How to Master the Tango and Make Money”
South Carolina Review: ”Orientation” and “Silverback Gorillas”
Westchester Review: “Hope”
The following poems appeared in a chapbook, Captive to Residue
