Table of Contents
Foreword xi
1 Check In
2 Alongside
3 The Voice That Murmurs
4 I Go to My Room
5 The Acrid Aroma of One-Sided Stories
6 For Mr. J
7 Do I Have To?
8 What about the Children?
9 The Same Book
10 Tell Me Something Better
11 Like a Bird
12 Help
13 Grief
14 Eaten up
15 A Family Story
16 I Lean on the One
17 That Good Rest
18 Delight
19 Ordinary and Astounding
20 Desire
21 Thanks on Our Lips
22 Steady Stream
23 Are You?
24 Illegitimate Kings
25 What I Need
26 Her Table
27 Hope for the Here and Now
28 Give Thanks
29 The Voice
30 Favor Ain't Fair
31 A Silence from Boasting
32 Secret
33 A Newborn Song
34 Bubbles
35 Shout for Joy
36 David
37 Worst-Case Scenario
38 Exiled
39 You Call This Love?
40 Ink Prayer
41 Do You?
42 Thirsting
43 Disquieted
44 Dr. Weems
45 Not Fully Human to You
46 Imagine
47 I Want a Different God
48 Courage
49 And Where Are You?
50 The Intangibles
51 Sorry
52 Break You Down
53 Who Will Save?
54 Conversation Partner
55 Betrayal
56 Counting Tears
57 Your Wings
58 The Last Word
59 At the Expense of Another
60 Groundhog Day
61 Heritage
62 Small
63 Wee Hours
64 Not Accidental
65 Her Masterpieces
66 God of the Soft Whisper
67 The Most Basic Blessing
68 Provided
69 Semi-Colon
70 But Let Me Smile
71 Shout
72 Where Are You?
73 The So-Called Upright
74 Shall I Continue?
75 What Falls with Us?
76 Your Works All Praise You
77 Your Silence
78 Wrath
79 We Are Not Repentant
80 The People Protest
81 Bee
82 Today I Will Rise Up
83 Naming
84 Forever Home
85 To Burn with Rage
86 Turn Up
87 Would That There Were
88 My Body, Your Image
89 The Story of My Life
90 Making Trouble
91 Never Answered
92 Choose Me
93 Lolita
94 Speak to Me of Goodness
95 God of the Water
96 There Is No One Like Our Mother
97 Stars
98 Make Noise!
99 Make Yourself Useful
100 Thousands and Thousands
101 Pull Me Back
102 Wardrobe Malfunctions
103 Blessings
104 An Instrument of Praise
105 Promises
106 How Can I Confess for My Nation?
107 Hard Hope
108 Awake!
109 Swallowed
110 Wait. What?
111 Covenant
112 Remembered Forever
113 For the Mothers of Fading Fires
114 A Place to Rest
115 Circles
116 I'm Gonna Speak
117 Praise, Even If
118 Simply
119 I Will Watch for You
120 Lies
121 Created
122 A Stranger Peace
123 Tight
124 We Would Not Have Made It
125 Uncertain
126 You Owe Me More Meaning
127 Reclaiming My Time
128 Flourish the Results
129 I Was Not
130 Sophia
131 Nursing
132 Where God Lives
133 The Taste in My Mouth
134 Splay Your Fingers Wide
135 Why Did You Choose Violence?
136 Gratitude for Their Wonders
137 Too Far
138 My Work
139 I Am All These Things
140 Be a Fence
141 The Good Hurt
142 Hiding Out
143 Thirst
144 Quickly
145 The Glory of Your Kin-dom
146 Will All Crumble
147 Not True
148 Get Excited!
149 Good Music
150 Exhale Glory
Acknowledgments 165
About the Editor 167
Contributors 169
