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Notes & Acknowledgments
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what had happened
gxrl gospel i
portrait of rage with caution tape & bullhorns
war strategies for every hood
i, too, sing america
no name in the street
gxrl gospel ii
grxl gospel iii
transhistorical for the x in my gxrls
& not by sight
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the creek behind my childhood home was one of those small heavens
& what is a heaven without a god to break it
some of the men we love are terrorists
father-son & holy
unholy ghazal
yes, i am done with the god of white men
grxl gospel iv
transhistorical and i observe the Sabbath like a ill verse
i n d e p e n d e n t
listen,
a poem of failures
held like arsenic in each of my kin’s mouths
CPT or lessons in god-timing
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gumbo ya ya
iv
pantoum for aiyana
georgia me
like a freedom too strange to be conquered
thottin on fountain drive
the world between me is gender
transhistorical for the men we love
filé
egungun
wayward experiments
this poem is a hex, tread light
psalm in which i demand a new name for my kin
in the event i become some unrecognizable beast
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Acknowledgments