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CONTENTS

fear

Singing Counter 3

Draft of an Ex-Colored Letter Sent Home from the Post-Race War Front 6

I End the Winter 7

Apologia for Something 8

My Father as Walter Lee Younger 9

Try to Hide 11

beauty

Mammy Know 15

Portrait D’une Négresse 17

Light 19

blues

Magdalene Brings 27

Magdalene Begins to See Jesus 28

What Jesus Said to Magdalene at Their Last Meal 29

Magdalene’s Wait 31

Magdalene on the Third Day 32

hoodoo

Memory of a Vision of Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans (1996) 35

Memory of an Ancestral Vision (2006) 36

Angry Black Woman in Root Worker Drag 37

After, We’ll Read the Bible 39

Job to His Daughter Jemima 40

[Faith is a virgin wrist] 41

[Today You spoke to me] 42

[Before I came to You] 43

[And how does God come] 44

[There is only] 45

[I recall four words] 46

[There is some blessedness] 47

wit

The Glory Gets 51

Female Surgery 52

My 4:15pm Shrink’s Appointment on Thursday 54

Memory of One Day in a Kitchen 56

Birthright 58

Patience 59

If Free, Then 61

Notes 65

Gratitude 67

Publication Acknowledgments and Credits 69