Table of Contents
ALSO BY JACQUELINE WOODSON
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraph
POEM BOOK
ROOF
LINE BREAK POEM
MEMORY
MAMA
LILI
FIRST
COMMERCIAL BREAK
HAIKU
GROUP HOME BEFORE MISS EDNA’S HOUSE
HALLOWEEN POEM
PARENTS POEM
SONNET POEM
HOW I GOT MY NAME
DESCRIBE SOMEBODY
EPISTLE POEM
ROOF POEM II
ME, ERIC, LAMONT & ANGEL
FAILING
NEW BOY
DECEMBER 9
LIST POEM
LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN HALSEY STREET PARK
PIGEON
SOMETIMES POEM
WAR POEM
GEORGIA
NEW BOY POEM II
TUESDAY
VISITING
JUST NOTHING POEM
GOD POEM
ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE POEM
HEY DOG
OCCASIONAL POEM
HAIKU POEM
LATENYA
POETRY POEM
ERIC POEM
LAMONT
HIP HOP RULES THE WORLD
PHOTOGRAPHS
NEW BOY POEM III
HAPPINESS POEM
BIRTH
LILI’S NEW MAMA’S HOUSE
CHURCH
NEW BOY POEM IV
TEACHER OF THE YEAR
EASTER SUNDAY
RODNEY
EPITAPH POEM
FIREFLY
THE FIRE
ALMOST SUMMER SKY
CLYDE POEM I: DOWN SOUTH
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
DEAR GOD
LATENYA II
JUNE
Acknowledgements
Discussion Questions
An Exciting Preview of: Brown Girl Dreaming
An Exciting Preview of: Peace, Locomotion
MAMA
Some days, like today
and yesterday and probably
tomorrow—all my missing gets jumbled up inside of me.
You know honeysuckle talc powder?
Mama used to smell like that. She told me
honeysuckle’s really a flower but all I know
is the powder that smells like Mama.
Sometimes when the missing gets real bad
I go to the drugstore and before the guard starts
following me around like I’m gonna steal something
I go to the cosmetics lady and ask her if she has it....
ALSO BY JACQUELINE WOODSON
After Tupac and D Foster
Behind You
Beneath a Meth Moon
Between Madison and Palmetto
Brown Girl Dreaming
The Dear One
Feathers
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
The House You Pass on the Way
Hush
I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This
If You Come Softly
Last Summer with Maizon
Lena
Maizon at Blue Hill
Miracle’s Boys
Peace, Locomotion
SPEAK
Copyright © Jacqueline Woodson, 2003
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