We Inherit What the Fires Left, Poems by Evans, William -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Epigraph Grass Growing Wild Beneath Us

1. The Engine 2. The Trail Says Three Point One Miles 3. Interrogation 4. Soft Prayer for the Teething 5. Little Lie 6. Mimic 7. Because I Was Once Good 8. On the First Snowfall 9. Inheritance 10. Good Storm 11. Jordans 12. Haunt 13. In the Event They Find Me Floating 14. Waves 15. Through the Night 16. Homecoming 17. Sometimes We Can’t Do Anything about the Blood 18. Backfire 19. Inheritance 20. Might Have to Kill 21. Clean 22. Sharks and Minnows 23. Explaining Racism to My Seven-Year-Old 24. Briefly We Were 25. The Truth about Families 26. Descendant 27. Pledge to Raising a Black Girl 28. Inheritance 29. Passing for Day

Trespass

30. Turn Down For Naught 31. After the Storm, It Was Business as Usual 32. How to Assimilate 33. I Never Got Over Tre Getting Out of Doughboy’s Car 34. My Lyft Driver Says You Shouldn’t Call Your Children Smart 35. Inheritance 36. Looking Over My Shoulder, She Discovers a Lynching 37. Almost Hilarious 38. Battle of Versailles 39. Before: Good Neighbors 40. After: Good Neighbors 41. Social Experiment in Which I Am the [Bear] 42. Coriolis Effect 43. Trespass 44. Inheritance 45. Vacants 46. At Forty-Six Degrees Fahrenheit Somebody Breaks Out the Grill 47. I Will Love You Most When I Barely Remember Anything 48. Naked White Men Make Conversation with Me in the Gym Locker Room 49. Nightmare Court 50. He Says My Blood Pressure Is Excellent So Death Is Wasted on Me

Aging Out of Someone else’s Dream

51. Every Black Kid Over 30 Has a Story about Picking Their Own Switch 52. Impacted 53. Inheritance 54. Wilderness 55. Sacrificial 56. Matriarch 57. Fences 58. Carbon Dating 59. Still[Ain’t]Life 60. There Is Another 61. First, We Dig 62. To the Garden I Abandoned 63. Climbing Down, I Forgot What I Was Looking For 64. After 65. Acres 66. Lore

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