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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Preface: How My Mother Taught Me to Write Poems

CLOSURE

Everybody in America Hate the South

Closure

Second Sight

The Day After Her Mother Died

The Relativity of Midlife

Did Jean Paul Sartre Ever Ask Simone de Beauvoir to Go to the Winn-Dixie?

A Feast with the Sane

Things That Are Lost

If I Didn’t Write Poetry

Church Women

Fat Religion

Family Photograph: A Conjugation

THE GEOGRAPHY OF PASSION

Cinderella Finds Happiness with Her Third Husband

The Geography of Passion

Incantation

So Much that Fascinates Is the Blood

Lineage

The Retort I Wish I Had Made After I Forgot to Pack Your Favorite Trunks on a Family Trip to the Gulf of Mexico and You Called Me Trifling

We Are in Cozumel

How A Woman Carves Poetry of Her Bones

A Woman Explains the World to Her Children

A Woman Tells the History of Her People

AMERICAN HAPPINESS

The Violence of Ordinary Days

The Klan Panhandles for Donations at the Intersection of Court Street and the Southern Bypass

American Happiness

How To Survive as a Black Woman Everywhere in America Including the Deep South

What if Barbie Were a Reality TV Star?

Another Thing to Worry About

The Street Committee Meeting Is Now in Session

Ethnophaulism for the News

Gun Collector Shoots Unarmed Black College Student for Playing Music Too Loud

No Child Left Behind

Bridge Crossing, Selma, 2015

Emmanuel Means God Is With Us

Index of Poem Titles

Acknowledgments

About the Author