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While the preceding poetic territory relies on the insistent enigma of the writing process as a source of music, I offer these notes to readers interested in delving further into the minutiae of the text. Generally excluded are identifications of historical figures, place-names, and other entities that might be located via obvious internet keyword searches unless there is a detail to add not readily available to the public and which I deem of importance to understanding what is happening.An earnest dinner invitation to the ghost of American poet and political activist Denise Levertov (1923–1997). If she comes over I will make bouillabaisse.When a line rushes in two directions at once, halting forward motion.Ref. to the suffering endured by my copy of The Collected Poems of Hart Crane (Doubleday Anchor, 1958: woodcut of the Brooklyn Bridge on the cover). It was crammed in my bag in the overhead bin during my first 22-hour train trip to NYC.When the un-urned wings of a wound get ahead of me and take a sharp right at the next intersection, forcing me to follow at high speed, like it or not.Another way of spelling significant.When your present identity harshly questions a previous incarnation of you.Ref. to figurative painter Edward Hopper (1882–1967) who managed to earn respect of some critics in the 1950s, otherwise the Age of Abstract Expressionism.Ref. to my hobby of walking through the neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill on Thanksgiving night for the purpose of spotting, and admiring, lit points of chandeliers in cavernous parlors of brownstones.Ref. to bouts of disassociation, me blending me with bedroom walls, floor, ceiling . . . to escape the threat of being stabbed at night by one of my mother's favorite killers.In a first tentative acknowledgement of a legacy of fragmentation, I hung ten funny thrift store hats on nails pounded into my college dorm room wall.The discouraging thing I say to myself about the first page of any manuscript.Up until third grade I had a stuttering problem which made writing extra attractive.A lie stated with such intelligence it fools even the most intelligent listener.After Section 3 of Auden's “Thanksgiving for a Habitat” which reads like the best realtor home tour ever. “The Cave of Making” explores the meaning of the office.To re-live an event rather than simply recall it.Popsickle flavor named after language poet Charles Bernstein (1950 –).Transcription of a sentence consisting only of saliva-sipping evoked by emotion.This misspelling is misspelled. It should read tenncesis, referring to the game of tennis that tenses sometime play within a sentence — past tense winning a point then the present tense, until no tense wins and the line has to be entirely re-crafted.