Contents
Uppity & Spacious
Airman’s Diary: The Angel I Encountered on the Train Platform
Concerning Cousin Twyla
Snippets As Per Two Scorpio Poets: (a)
Snippets As Per Two Scorpio Poets: (A)
After Alpharetta, Salvador, Bahia
Under the Ambiance of Shirley Horn’s “Meaning of the Blues”
Jintz: A Warrior Woman: The Way a Story About Someone Else Just Nails It
Alfred Charles Sharpton, Jr.
Uppity & Spacious
On Missing Miss Aretha Franklin
What Unravels Here Has Sprouts
And We Try to Find Gestures for Our Humanity When We’re Young
House of Five: Five Folks Living Up in There with One Fan
Poverty
My Friend, Ty, Cuts My Former Boss’s Hair at Frank E. Campbell—The Funeral Chapel
On Four Seasons Hotel Stationery: New York Downtown
Little Swan & The Real Housewives of Atlanta
Charlie Rose: The rise and plummet of a man who preached ‘character’ and ‘integrity’
Man-Low
After Years of Watching Them Be Them, I’ve Still Got This Fire
Nary a Thimble for Young Sadness
I Was Trent & Shit for Trent Got Janky
After the Memorial Cremate Me in Green & Black
Winter Was Houndstooth
Crooked Aura
Harlem Artists Salon
But Beautiful
Precious, Precious, Don’t Be Fooled
Another Land of My Body
Once Between Sets at Bemelmans Bar
Nice, France: Les Bains-Douches
Sheraton’s Pleated Roman Shades Rolled All-the-Way Up
Poem for Lifetime Eaters of Pig, Pintos & Cornbread
Spirit of Phlegm
On the Seventh Night: a Brew, a Spell
On the Eve of the 2020 Presidential Election: On the Eve of Defeat
Low Cs
Upon PTSD: Notes after psychotherapy, a maintenance session
Alzheimer’s Disease
To Tremble with Questions
Text From a U-Shaped Valley
I’ve Known Salt: This to Gray
Lenox Hill Hospital: Uris 7612
Intravenous Sashay: Having Asked for Something to Ease My Anxiety
One Wall Away a Woman Dies of COVID-19
Uncle Douglas: He Showed Out & Left
Ms. Clematine & Ms. Bessie Will of Rockford & Alexander City, Alabama
To Tremble with Questions
This Means I Won’t Sip Here Again
Codependent Quarantine
Good & Greasy Gristle
Sunday School Lesson: Genesis 19:1-11
Cabaret for Freedom Redux
This Width I’m Wearing Halts the Cakewalk Song
What’s New at 50?