Table of Contents

• • Dedication
  • Introduction

• Rage

  • The Ceiba Tree
  • Girlhood Trapped
  • A poem for New Orleans
  • Palabras
  • Tombs
  • The Stroll
  • Remember Trayvon
  • How to be a Douchebag
  • Its Starting to Feel
  • Make Love to Rage

• Making

  • For Cherrie
  • Gifts of Failure
  • Does it hurt when
  • I
  • Whole/Pieces

• Love

  • Mi Madre
  • Robyn
  • My Man
  • Clemency
  • Junt@s
  • Meet Me or Portrait of a Sunday Morning
  • Sometimes all you need is a love poem
  • Black Clouds
• • Acknowledgements