Contents
Nursery
Love, You Got Me Good
For Some Slight I Can�t Quite Recall
The Syndromes: Doubling
Bringing the Shovel Down
Bull Dragged from Arena
American Dreaming
The Syndromes: Memorial Syndrome, or Memory
Glass
The Lion and the Gazelle
The Syndromes: Cartographer�s Syndrome
Axe Blade
Isaac
Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew
Love, I�m Done with You
Solidarity
The Syndromes: Horologist�s Syndrome
Hollywood

Within Two Weeks the African American Poet Ross Gay Is Mistaken for Both the African American Poet Terrance Hayes and the African American Poet Kyle Dargan, Not One of Whom Looks Anything Like the OthersSome Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to My Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated: A Monologue
The Syndromes: The Burden
From My Car on Broad Street
Praising the Snake
Poem to My Child, If Ever You Shall Be
Love, Here�s the Deal
Say It
The Syndromes: Mason�s Syndrome
Ode to the Beekeeper
Ode to the Tongue Orchid

Ode to the RedbudOverheard
Opera Singer
The Syndromes: Undertaker�s Syndrome, or Gravedigger�s Syndrome
Learning to Speak
A Poem in which I Try to Express My Glee at the Music My Friend Has Given Me
Because
Sorrow Is Not My Name
The Syndromes: Raining, or Washing
Again
Notes and Acknowledgments