Washing Bread -- Fullness -- One Year Sonny Stabs Himself -- All Is Not Lost When Dreams Are -- Fisher Street -- Water Road -- One-eyed Mother Selling Mangoes -- The Blue Territory of Sissies -- Gossamer and Thinner -- Games -- Maudell's Moon -- Living Under a Man on the Moon -- The Warmth of Hot Chocolate -- The Adversary -- A Form of Deicide -- Renegade Angels -- Old Maids Weaving Baskets -- The Eclipse and the Holy Man -- Alternatives for a Celibate Daughter -- The Owl in Daytime -- It Rides on Tadpoles -- The Undertaker's Daughter Makes Bread -- The Undertaker's Daughter Feels Neglect -- Passover Poem -- Doubts During Catastrophe -- Small Congregations -- When I Was 'Bout Ten We Didn't Play Baseball -- Poem for My Mothers and Other Makers of Asafetida -- Remembering Kitchens -- Raising a Humid Flag -- Running Out of Choices -- Timex Remembered -- For Those Who Can't Peel the Potatoes Close Enough -- Approaching Venus's-flytrap During a Hungarian Film: A Subtitle.
The Manna Addicts -- Toy Stove -- Nigger for the First Time -- The Best of the Body -- Cha-cha Pickle -- Dear Charles -- Beanstalk Dreams -- The Sugar Slave -- Spilled Sugar -- The Party to Which Wolves Are Invited -- The Wonder -- The Wake for the Lost Two Hundred Miles -- Death of the Sweet World -- Holding -- The Linoleum Rhumba -- Rush Hour -- One-Legged Cook -- This Magician -- The Eyelid's Struggle -- She Did My Hair Outside, the Wash a Tent Around Us -- She's Florida Missouri but She Was Born in Valhermosa and Lives in Ohio -- Birmingham Brown's Turn -- A Little Something for Buckwheat and Other Pickaninnies -- The Lynching -- Lunchcounter Freedom -- The Day Before Kindergarten: Taluca, Alabama, 1959 -- The Root of the Road -- Interpretation of a Poem by Frost -- November and Aunt Jemima -- A Reconsideration of the Blackbird -- Tribute to Jesse and Then Some -- Redbones as Nothing Special -- Five Miracles -- A Godiva -- From the Bride's Journal -- Denial.
St. Alexis Hospital: Visiting Hour -- A Child's Been Dead a Week -- The Harridan -- Landscape with Saxophonist -- Scene from The Spirit of the Beehive, a Spanish Film -- Spring Cleaning at the Lewiston Police Station -- The Nature of Morning -- The Wreckage on the Wall of Eggs -- Sunrise Comes to Second Avenue -- Afternoon Nap -- An Anointing -- The Rapture of Dry Ice Burning Off Skin as the Moment of the Soul's Apotheosis -- Mai Pen Rai -- A Catcher for an Atomic Bouquet -- Goodness and the Salt of the Earth -- Almost an Ode to the West Indian Manatee -- There Will Be Animals -- Miss Liberty Loses Pageant -- Green Light and Gamma Ways -- One for All Newborns.
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