The new black

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 my last modernist poem, #4 (or, re-re-birth of a nation)
 out with the old
 my life as china
 from The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglass
 celestial
 mesostics from the american grammar book
 statistical haiku (or, how do they discount us? let me count the ways)
 good night women (or, defying the carcinogenic pen)
 her tin skin
 pink-think (a primer for girls of other colors)
 clare\'s song
 a sonnet for stanley tookie williams
 in a non-subjunctive mood
 where\'s carolina?
 x marks the spot
 received in spring
 the defense of marriage act, alternatives to
 dependencies. Him/body/meant, her/body/meantwhere you are planted
 a background in music
 ode to my blackness
 the cold
 to see the minus
 love life, with stitches
 riven
 never after
 a matter of balance
 on new year\'s eve
 the cold
 out with the new
 owed to shirley chisholm
 bop for presidential politics, c. 2008
 getting around utopia
 you can\'t deny it
 womanish
 duck, duck, redux
 because there should be love
 improper(ty) behavior
 at the musée de l\'homme
 a question of survival
 soundtrack for a generational shift
 revisiting
 her table mountain
 notes to my nieces (or, essays in fortune-telling). Coming of agego-go tarot
 quiet as it\'s kept
 tonight i saw
 salty (extended play)
 explosives
 (mis)takes one to know one
 post-white
 the fare-well letters
 the fare-well letters
 dear ace bandage
 dear cuddly dharma
 dear existential fallacy
 dear gift horse
 dear ink jet
 dear kerosene lamp
 dear mid-afternoon nap
 dear opaque policy
 dear quaalude residue
 dear safety test
 dear untimely violet
 dear white xmas
 dear yesterday\'s zero
 NOTES
 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.