Silencer
(Book)

Silencer to the heart while jogging through a park ; Conjecture on the stained-glass image of white Christ at Ebenezer Baptist Church ; In my 31st year ; Taking aim at a Macy's changing room mirror, I blame television ; In defense of ballin' on a budget ; Watch us elocute ; Ars poetica battle rhyme for really wannabe somebodies ; Prayer on Aladdin's lamp ; Plea to my jealous heart ; Confessional booth with lines from Heartbreak "Drizzy" Drake, ending on a theme from Oddisee ; Ode to browsing the Web ; Stumped speech on the internet ; Close encounters ; Creation song in which a swift wind sucker-punches a transformer ; Silencer on the arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. after sassing an officer who assumed he'd unlawfully entered his own home ; Silencer with blues & birds on a wire ; The trees ; Blue faces ; Theorizing Wesley: on the African American nonresident alien ; Film noir at Gallup Park, on the edge

When I'm alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, & in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call ; The way we were made ; Incident with nature, late ; Shibboleth ; When academia tells me only a fool believes in a God that he can't see ; On being told prayer is a crutch ; Deer ode, tangled & horned ; Nocturne with revelations & militant Black Jesus ; Ars poetica

The most dangerous game ; Animal farm

Cul-de-sac pastoral. Ars poetica battle rhyme for sucker emcees ; Bay window lauds ; Weekend open house sext ; Tiki torch cookout vespers ; Trash night compline ; Materialist Matins ; Prayer on the subdivision

Conjecture the dream ; Morning in the burbs.