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For Rubie, Álvaro, and Chico
I would like to thank the Poetry Center at
the University of Arizona, the Soze Agency,
and Civil Rights Corps in Washington, DC,
for the grant support that assisted in creating this volume.
CONTENTS
The Making of {#289-128} in Five Parts
.OR. This Malus Thing Never to Be Confused with Justice
Escorting the Criminal Justice Advocate through State Prison
Counterproductive Definitions within the Criminal Justice System (1)
Roxbury Correctional Book Club
How to Become the Invisible Man
Quiet Before the Storm in the Dayroom
When Bullets Miss but Memory Lives
Counterproductive Definitions within the Criminal Justice System (2)
Aesthetic Beauty I Remember I Think
Photograph of My Girl Winter on 135th and Broadway Taped to the Wall
But She Wasn’t from My Geographical Location
When the Government Doesn’t Love You (the Eighties)
Open Air Market on Herkimer & Nostrand, Brooklyn (1989)
Sex Workers on Smoke Break 1994
When Your Silence Will Not Save You
Before the Beauty .OR. How Could U Forget?
{#289-128}—Still Invisible, Too
A Primer for Surviving a Traffic Stop
