Chasing Utopia 1 -- A Short Essay Affirming Why 4 -- If a Lemon 6 -- Podcast for Bicycles 7 -- Why I Wrote The Grasshopper's Song 9 -- My Sister and Me 13 -- Spices 14 -- Other Place 16 -- Lioness Circles Her Brood in New Orleans 17 -- Right Way 19 -- Spring Blooms 20 -- International Open 21 -- Giggle Bank 22 -- Kick Stretch Kick 26 -- Mrs. Scott 27 -- Where Did the Night Go 29 -- It's Just Love 30 -- Still Life with Apron 32 -- One Thing 34 -- And Everyone Will Answer 35 -- Day Pass to Heaven 41 -- My Dream 42 -- Artichoke Soup 43 -- On Knoxville, TN 44 -- Affirming My Birth Date 45 -- American Vision of Abraham Lincoln 48 -- I Am at That Point 51 -- I Hate Mondays 52 -- A Song for a Blackbird 53 -- Icarus 54 -- When the Girl Became a Poet 56 -- When God Made Mountains 59 -- These Women 62 -- Cooking with Mommy 65 -- What the Fly on the Wall Overheard 68 -- Fear: Eat In or Take Out? 70 -- Biscuits: Dropped or Baked 72 -- Poets 74 -- For Mark Dressman 75 -- Postcards 77 -- In Defense of Flowers 78 -- Werewolf Avoidance 80 -- Exercise 81 -- I Communicate 82 -- Lone Ranger Rides the Lonesome Trail Again 83 -- For Runaway Slaves 85 -- My Diet 86 -- Nickels for Nina 87 -- Blues for Roanoke 89 -- Spotlight in the Sky 91 -- Spider Waltz 92 -- I Wish I Could Live (in a Book) 93 -- I Wish I Could Live (in Music) 95 -- I Wish I Could Live (in a Painting) 97 -- Don Pullen 99 -- Making a Perfect Man 101 -- When My Phone Trembles 104 -- Still Life with Crying Girl 105 -- Robert Champion 107 -- Allowables 109 -- Flying in Kigali 110 -- Terezin 112 -- To the Lion Who Discovered a Deer in His Habitat: Give Him Ketchup! 114 -- Significance of Poetry 116 -- Note to the South: You Lost 117 -- Golden Shovel Poem 119 -- Morgantown, WVA 120 -- For Sonia Sanchez 121 -- For Haki Madhubuti 123 -- Our Job Safety Is Your Priority with Coffee 125 -- Brown Bookshelf 129 -- Interior Vision 131 -- I Give Easily 133 -- People Who Live Alone 134 -- Before You Jump 135 -- You Gave Her Something 137 -- Thirst 139 -- Scared and the Vulnerable 141.