About the Girl Who Would Become a Gawd
The First Rite of Water
Wolf
Ultra Sounds
The Birth Mother's Red Bath for Courage
Photo of a Girl, 1985: Sistah
Gawd
Photo of X, 2003: Abstractions
Photo of a Girl, 1988: Cyborg
GrackelBot
My Mother, the Forest
Photo of a Girl, 1992: Gremlins
Photo of X, 1997: Something Not Right
Coded Binaries
Photo of X, 2004: Fish with Yemayá
Photo of a Girl, 1994: Gawd
A Note to My Daughter about Water
The Second Rite of Flesh
Photo of a Girl, 1984: Senior Photo
The Kardashian Curse
whoever.
Photo of a Girl, 1991: Hunt
The Battered Woman's Prayer for Power
The Fantastic Life of My Guardian Angels
Photo of a Girl, 1993: Bitch
Dog Catchers in Texas
wanted.
Hex for R. Kelly
Featuring Tonight at the Street-Hustler's Circus: The Girls
The Daughters of Samuel Little
Photo of a Girl, 1995: Training Day
Concrete Qweens
Tinder
Photo of a Girl, 1996: Conjurer
Photo of X, 2005: What Dreams Are These?
Collage of a Dying Sun
The Red Wedding Dress
My Sister-Wife
Lazarus
About My Daughter Who I Gave A Way
The Third Rite of Smoke
Li'l Mama Gets High
A Tale from the Hood
Kaleidoscope Cracked Wide Open on Fifth and Trinity
Photo of X, 2010: A Box of Wine
sandboxes.
When She Young, Black, & Bad
Saint She of All the Missing Things
Photo of X, 2011: The Suicide Disease
murder.
Graffiti: An American Sonnet for Eric Garner
Letter to Black Girls
Year of the Dog
The Kids Are Gonna Be Alright
For the White Girl in Poetry Workshop Who Says I Don't Belong Here
Black Escapism
All It Took to Get to You
Photo of X, 2007: HoodWitches
Notes
Acknowledgments