Bluest nude : poems
(Book)

I. Blueprint ; On seeing and being seen ; Two girls bathing ; Marigolds of fire ; Labor ; Poem after Betye Saar's The Liberation of Aunt Jemima ; Diamondback ; "After the ..., I yearned to be reckless. To smash" ; Detail from "Poem after Betye Saar's The Liberation of Aunt Jemima" ; Primordial mirror ; Le Sacre du printemps ; "After the ..., I had the urge to dance" --

II. She said --

III. Posing nude ; Burying seeds ; At the fish house ; Why I left the garden ; "After the ..., I mothered my mother" ; Facing off ; After the ..., time turned like a mood ring" ; Resembling flowers resembling weeds ; Of being in motion ; "After the laughter subsided the crying kept after we held hands" ; Heaven as Olympic spa --

IV. Bluest nude ; Bathers with a turtle ; Slow drag with branches of pine ; Lotioning my mother's back ; Aubade ; A family woven like night through trees ; Etymology of a mood ; Poem after an iteration of a painting by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, destroyed by the artist herself ; Head on ice #5 ; After a year of forgetting ; "There is a scar near my right eye no lover ever noticed."