Contents
Horsepower
I
American Honey
Blue Heart Baby
My Father Teaches Me How to Disappear
The Payphone
All the Men that Summer Who Said I Love You
Elegy for Kentucky
Dear Aunt Louise, Muh
II
Winning Colors, 1988
Derby
Quilt ‘n’ Frames
The Wheat from the Chaff
Self-Portrait as Disney Princess
Nightstick
My Father Teaches Me How to Slip Away
Abecedarian for Alzheimer’s
My Father Teaches Me about the Bees
Ode to Hushpuppy
Little Lamp
III
My Father Teaches Me How to Handle a Pistol
Ghost Ride
God of the Motorcade (2005)
In the City
Rodeo
Junker
Girl 6
Upon Reading James Lipton’s An Exaltation of Larks
Menace
No Country for Black Boys
Drift
Ode to My First Car, 1988 Cutlass Supreme Classic 307 V8, Dual Exhaust
Pegasus
Notes
Acknowledgments