Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth by Walker, Alice -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Table of Contents Dedication Epigraph Preface Acknowledgments I Can Worship You

I Can Worship You The Love of Bodies All the Toys Poem for Aneta Chapman on Her 33rd Birthday The Same as Gold

My Friend Calls

My Friend Calls Coming Back from Seeing Your People Someone I Barely Know Despite the Hunger My African How Different You Are

New House Moves

New House Moves Trapdoors to the Cellar Spring-Grass Green Whiter Than Bone Even When I Walked Away Red Petals Sticking Out Inside My Rooms

Let Change Play God

Refrigerator Poems

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Just at Dusk The Moment I Saw Her A Native Person Looks up from the Plate The Anonymous Caller I Was So Puzzled by the Attacks At First, It Is True, I Thought There Were Only Peaches & Wild Grapes May 23, 1999 Reverend E. in Her Red Dress

All the People Who Work for Me & My Dog Too

All the People Who Work for Me & My Dog Too The Snail Is My Power Animal In Everything I Do The Writer’s Life Grace Loss of Vitality Until I Was Nearly Fifty

Thanks for the Garlic

Thanks for the Garlic The New Man What Will Save Us My Friend Arrived

Dead Men Love War

Dead Men Love War Thousands of Feet Below You Living off of Isolated Women They Made Love

To Be a Woman

To Be a Woman Thanksgiving The Last Time I Left Our House I Loved You So Much Winning

Falling Bodies

Falling Bodies Why the War You Have in Mind (Yours and Mine) Is Obsolete Projection When You Look

The Tree

The Tree The Climate of the Southern Hemisphere Where Is That Nail File? Where Are My Glasses? Have You Seen My Car Keys?

My Ancestors’ Earnings

My Ancestors’ Earnings My Friend Yeshi Ancestors to Alice One of the Traps

Not Children

Not Children You Can Talk Goddess Why War Is Never a Good Idea

The Award

The Award Though We May Feel Alone When We Let Spirit Lead Us Dream We Are All So Busy

The Backyard, Careyes

The Backyard, Careyes Practice Dreaming the New World in Careyes Patriot Because Light Is Attracted to Dark

When Fidel Comes to Visit Me

When Fidel Comes to Visit Me No Better Life Someone Should Have Taught You This Dream of Frida Kahlo My Mother Was So Wonderful

Aging

Aging Some Things to Enjoy About Aging Lying Quietly Wrinkles Life Is Never Over

Bring Me the Heart of María Sabina

If They Come to Shoot You You Too Can Look, Smell, Dress, Act This Way The Breath of the Feminine Relying on neither ... Bring Me the Heart of María Sabina

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