EAT Poems #11 The Sleep of Blue Moon Flowers By Fred Dale TRACKS 1. Self-Portrait above the Urinal 00:26 2. St. Edward the Confessor 01:50 3. Migrations 01:31 4. The Sold Porch 00:45 5. Marriage House 00:36 6. The Luminaria Sleeps 01:08 7. The Oak Tree 00:26 8. Oxbow Lakes 01:22 9. In the Cotton 02:11 10. Learning is All 00:27 11. Bird Houses 01:52 12. Wild Blueberries 01:04 13. Agnes in the Flood 01:02 14. Earl 00:55 15. Love at Twenty-Five Years 00:35 About the Author: Fred Dale is a husband to his wife, Valerie, and a father to his occasional jerk of a dog, Earl. He is a Senior Instructor in the English Department at the University of North Florida, and an avid cyclist, but mostly, he just grades papers. Credits Poems by Fred Dale, read by the author Mark Ari, Editor and Producer Kelsi Hasden, Associate Editor Jacqueline Meisburg, Assistant Editor Cover Design by Stacy Wells Acknowledgements “Agnes in the Flood” and “Marriage House” first appeared in Forge (Summer 2014). “SelfPortrait above the Urinal” first appeared in Juked (February 2015). “The Oak Tree” first appeared in glassworks (Spring 2015). “The Sold Porch” first appeared in mojo (Issue 7. 2015). “Migrations” first appeared in miller’s pond (Spring 2015). “The Luminaria Sleeps” first appeared in Chiron Review (Summer 2015). “Learning is All” first appeared in Perversion Magazine (Issue No. 3 Summer 2015). “In the Cotton” first appeared in The Critical Pass Review (Summer 2015). “Oxford Lakes” first appeared in Forge (Summer 2015). “St. Edward the Confessor” first appeared in Crack the Spine (Vol. 159). “Wild Blueberries” first appeared in Stirring: A Literary Collection (Vol. 17, Edition 11: November 2015). Copyright 2016, Fred Dale EAT retains non-exclusive rights for electronic distribution of the sound files.