More Than Meat and Raiment: Poems

ISBN-13: 9780810144569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 192 str.

Angela Jackson; Parneshia Jones

Spis treści

• Hero House
• The Guide
• Heat wave
• Higher Ground
• He Was a Trained Carpenter
• A Country Girl
• Beside the House
• The Garden
• Tenants
• Madaddy and the Honduran Mau
• Overnight
• Summer and the City
• Homemade Rolls
• Novenas
• Bills
• Christmas Eves
• Club DeLisa
• Not your Government Name
• Hot Fun in the Summertime
• The Eiffel Towers
• Hero – House
• One of the Guys
• A Portion of the Story
• After the Killing
• Love in High Places
• The Wisdom of Ghosts
• After Ablution
• Bellwether
• Blizzard, 2011
• The House on Wentworth Avenue
• The Memory Borrower
• Vacant Lot
• Frappe Toast
• Sacred Heart: Atriptych
• O, Mama
• The Flowering Bamboo 
Wishbone Wish
• Thread Unwinds
• A Beloved Girl Begins
• A Mother Muses
• Destitution
• Goodness is its Own Reward
• As I Walk I Sing
• God Don’t Like Ugly
• Is This the Breeding Ground for Bitter Men?
• Three Little Birds
• Pausing for Elimination
• The Dead Speak
• What is the Difference
• Sumptuous Meals
• Upon Reflection
• Knock, Knock
• The Three Little Birds
• Being a good mother
• Going Straight on the Right
• The Three Birds in the Tree
• I Keep on Going, Going to the Right
• A New Sky
• Welcome!
• In the Morning
• What the little birds said –
• After Work
• Glimmering Sparks
• Caress
• God is God
• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
• Motive is Everything
• The Act
• A Girl’s Folly
• What She Said as She Was Grinding her Up
• A Daughter’s Bones Remember
• Musings
• A Bird in a Tree
• She Moved in Command
• Party Time
• As She Strutted
• She Turned a Deaf Ear
• A Bird Tweeted
• The Way it Went
• The Arch-Bishop Bull
• She Kicked Back Reclining
• Hot Mess
• High Noon
• Call Her Consequence, Call Her Karma, Call Her on the Run
• Curious Mother
• A Half Girl
• Who Signed My Name In Blood
• Girls at Play
• Coda