Electric arches

True stories. Secret decoder ring --

Arrival day --

The first time [a re-telling] --

The device --

Artifacts --

Four boys on Ellis [a re-telling] --

Sestina with Matthew Henson's fur suit --

True stories about Koko Taylor --

From A Map Home --

Another time [a re-telling] --

Note from LeBron James to LeBron James --

Excerpts from an Interview with Metta World Peace, a.k.a. Ron Artest, a.k.a. the Panda's friend --

How I arrived --

Oil and water. Shea butter manifesto --

Appletree --

I thought it was a spider --

What I mean when I say I'm sharpening my oyster knife --

To Stacey, as you were --

Why you cannot touch my hair --

Ode to Luster's Pink Oil --

One thousand and one ways to touch your own face --

To the notebook kid --

Thursday morning, Newbury Street --

Letters from the flatlands. On Prince --

Origin story --

Sonnet --

Chicago is a chorus of barking dogs --

At the salon --

Montage in a car --

The discount megamall (in memoriam) --

I come from the fire city --

Hood run: a poem in five acts --

One good time for Marilyn Mosby --

Columbus Hospital --

Ekphrasis, parts II-V --

What I talk about when I talk about Black Jesus --

At work with my father --

Fullerton Avenue --

Tuesday --

Requiem for fifth period and the things that went on then --

Untitled anti-elegy --

Affirmation.