Bluest Nude

I.
Blueprint
On Seeing and Being Seen
Two Girls Bathing
Marigolds of Fire
Labor
Poem After Betye Saar's The Liberation of Aunt Jemima
Diamondback
?After the __________, I yearned to be reckless. To smash?
Detail from ?Poem After Betye Saar's The Liberation of Aunt Jemima?
Primordial Mirror
Le Sacre du printemps
?After the __________, I had the urge to dance?
II.
She Said
III.
Posing Nude
Burying Seeds
At the Fish House
Why I Left the Garden
?After the __________, I mothered my mother?
Facing Off
?After the __________, time turned like a mood ring.?
Resembling Flowers Resembling Weeds
Of Being in Motion
?After the laughter subsided the crying kept after we held hands?
Heaven as Olympic Spa
IV.
Bluest Nude
Bathers with a Turtle
Slow Drag with Branches of Pine
Lotioning My Mother's Back
Aubade
A Family Woven Like Night through Trees
Etymology of a Mood
Poem After an Iteration of a Painting by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Destroyed by the Artist Herself
Head on Ice #5
After a Year of Forgetting
?There is a scar near my right eye no lover ever noticed?
Notes

Ama Codjoe is the author of Bluest Nude. She is also the author of Blood of the Air, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her honors include a 2017 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, and a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship. Codjoe's work has twice appeared in The Best American Poetry. She lives in New York City.