Hoops: Poems Book

	Selling out	13
	Hoops	19
	Moose	29
	Bum rush	32
	Silk city	34
	Metaphor	37
	Maddeningly elusive, yet endlessly tempting	39
	Urban renewal	43
	The backyard garden wall is mossy green	43
	What he gave of himself lacked the adornment of lilacs	45
	Back then I had a ceaseless yearning : my breathing	47
	A squeegee blade along your tongue's length	48
	What of my fourth-grade teacher at Reynolds Elementary	49
	How untouchable the girls arm-locked strutting	50
	That moment in church when I stared at the reverend's black	51
	Out of punctured wounds we spun up, less	53
	Letter to Brooks	57
	Fern rock	57
	Olney	62
	Logan	68
	Wyoming	73
	Hunting Park	80
	Erie	85
	Allegheny	91
	North Philadelphia	96
	Susquehanna-Dauphin	103
	Cecil B. Moore	108
	Girard	114
	Fairmont	119
	Spring garden	123