Whiskey Still Burns

Ian Uriel Girdley

Whiskey Still Burns

Selected and New Poems

Ian Uriel Girdley

Whiskey Dog Press New Albany, IN 2009

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to everyone who has helped inspire me towrite any poem, in the smallest and the biggest ways. Thisincludes all poets that have read in public and shown me how towrite and how not to write, and gave inspiration either way.Also, thanks to everyone from Bloomington, Southern Indiana,and Louisville that have come to see me read, unknowinglyconvincing me that I should not become an astrophysicist. Thankyou to my family, especially my mom and grandma, for your loveand my friends for taking me down a notch. Thank you toeveryone who has bummed me a cigarette, bought me a drink, orshared a bottle with me.For various reasons, thank you to Dennis Ray Powell, Jr.,Nick Moore, Andrew Kenower, Ryan Hertz, Tony Brewer, JosephKershbaum, Hiromi Yoshida, Joelle Petrus, Sheri Wright, Michael Jackman, Tristan Williamson, Racheal’s Café, the Runcible Spoon,Boxcar Books, Perkfection Café, Destinations Booksellers, MatrixLiterary Arts Organization and InKy reading series. Thank you toanyone I have left off this list, all of my poetic contemporaries, tothe dead poets that have influenced me, and to anyone who runsan open mic or reading series to help promote poetry and the arts.Thank you to Rufus Eugene Girdley, Montgomery Jefferson Girdley, and Howard Ti Jean Girdley, my three dogs, formaking everything I do more complicated and enjoyable. Mostly,thank you to my wife, Sarah, who makes writing possible, andoften living. And I would like to thank her once again just forputting up with me.