I received my contributor’s copy to Crosswinds, IX-2023. This is the contest edition, where senior editor David Dragone and the other editors feature not only the winners of their annual contest, but the other finalists and a generous number of other contest entrants. My poem, “Relations,” was among the also-rans, as were poems by other poets I’m happy to be in the company with, such as Elton Glaser, Andrea Hollander, and Mark Rubin.