Contents
Arroz Poetica				1
 I.
Santa Ana of Grocery Carts		4
After Lightning, I Dream of Abrigette	5
Ode to the Watermelon			6
Sudan					8
Palimpsest				9
Ride					10
Alchemy				11
Adisogdo's Song				13
 II.
Conjugation				16
Teeth					17
Consider the Hands that Write 
This Letter				18
13					19
Snail, or, To a House			20
Hyena, Hyena				21
Cyclops Mary (I)				22
Cyclops Mary on the Avenue, 
A Monologue (II)				23
The Incredible Story of Mother Mom
& the Daughter Who Was Taken by
Crows (As Told by the Oldest Girl)		24
Zouk					28
Ish					29
Dr. Roque's Waiting Room		30
Aunt Margaret, Tree of Blackbirds,
Tree of Oranges				31
 III.
In the Cane Fields			33
Limay, Nicaragua			34
What Brang Me Here			35
But When They Go to Light
the Fire on Me				36
L¿zaro, for Don Tranquilino		37
Lazrus & Girlie Speak of Rising 100 Days
After Lazrus' Death			38
Tucutu T¿n				39
 IV.
Invocation				41
Antinion					43
 V.
Scent: Love Poem for the Pil¿n		45
Ode to the Letter B			46
For Estefani Lora, Third Grade, Who
Made Me a Card				47
Monologue of the Heart Pumping Blood	49
Fiel					50
Love,					51
Ghazal					52
Today, You Are Fourteen			53
For the Psychic at Broadway & 207th 	54
To the Child I Met Without Knowing
the Story				55
The Rain at Dzorwulu			56
Litany					57
If There Is Beauty, Then it Is This		58
Epistolary Dream Poem after Finding
a Schoolbook Map			59

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