Intro -- Contents -- Horsepower -- I -- American Honey -- Blue Heart Baby -- My Father Teaches Me How to Disappear -- The Payphone -- All the Men that Summer Who Said I Love You -- Elegy for Kentucky -- Dear Aunt Louise, Muh -- II -- Winning Colors, 1988 -- Derby -- Quilt 'n' Frames -- The Wheat from the Chaff -- Self-Portrait as Disney Princess -- Nightstick -- My Father Teaches Me How to Slip Away -- Abecedarian for Alzheimer's -- My Father Teaches Me about the Bees -- Ode to Hushpuppy -- Little Lamp -- III -- My Father Teaches Me How to Handle a Pistol -- Ghost Ride and God of the Motorcade (2005) -- In the City -- Rodeo -- Junker -- Girl 6 -- Upon Reading James Lipton's An Exaltation of Larks -- Menace -- No Country for Black Boys -- Drift -- Ode to My First Car, 1988 Cutlass Supreme Classic 307 V8, Dual Exhaust -- Pegasus -- Notes -- Acknowledgments