Picking -- Origins -- Hot Combs Catfish Crumbs and Bad Men -- Only Read from Exodus -- To White Folk -- This Woman -- Black Boys -- Conversations I Never Had with My Father -- For Trayvon's Mother -- Whole Sick Mess -- Joan -- To Miss Gianna Floyd -- Philando -- I Dreamt the KKK Were in My Living Room -- Dear Tupac -- To Kanye -- For Harriet -- On Witnessing a Stabbing in Overton Park, Memphis, TN -- Me, Receiving My First Period -- My Mother, Receiving Her Last Period -- That One Time My College Boyfriend Hit Me -- I Couldn't Find This in the Bible -- Dreams -- A Poem for Black Girls in Their Twenties -- Poem at 30 -- Poem at 35 -- Nola vs. Memphis -- Kristen -- On Contemplating Leaving My White Husband -- My Ex-Husband -- Sundays -- In Yo Life -- Day of My Divorce -- Mary, Did You Have a Choice? -- Love Haiku -- In My Godmother's Garden -- Picking No. 2 -- We Are Accused -- Agony -- A Sonnet -- Dinner Prep -- Poem at Midnight -- Tired Black Woman -- I Don't Know Why -- For My Ex -- A Black Woman's Heart -- Maybe -- Route to Freedom -- To the Cynic.