The first cities (1968): Memorial II --
"I die for all mysterious things" --
What my child learns of the sea --
Now that I am forever with child --
Bridge through my windows --
To a girl who knew what side her --
Father Son and Holy Ghost --
Father, the year is fallen --
Cables to rage (1970): Rites of passage --
Rooming houses are old women --
And what about the children --
Conversation in crisis --
On a night of the full moon --
Fantasy and conversation --
From a land where other people live (1973): For each of you --
The day they eulogized Mahalia --
Good mirrors are not cheap --
Moving out or the end of --
A song of names and faces --
Who said it was simple --
New York head shop and museum (1974): New York City 1970 --
To my daughter the junkie on a train --
To Desi as Joe as smoky the lover of 115th Street --
The American Cancer Society --
A sewerplant grows in Harlem --
A birthday memorial to Seventh Street --
One year to life on Grand Central shuttle --
The workers rose on May day --
A trip on the Staten Island ferry --
My fifth trip to Washington ended In Northeast Delaware --
To the girl who lives in a tree --
Memorial III from a phone booth on Broadway --
And don't think I won't be waiting --
Song for a thin sister --
Revolution is one form of social change --
Times change and we change with them --
Visit to a city out of time --
Coal (1976): Rites of passage --
Father Son and Holy Ghost --
Rooming houses are old women --
On a night of the full moon --
Now that I am forever with child --
What my child learns of the sea --
Story books on a kitchen table --
Father the year has fallen --
Bridge through my window --
Conversations in crisis --
When the saints come marching in --
And what about the children --
For the king and queen of summer --
Fantasy and conversation --
To a girl who knew what side her bread was buttered on --
Between our selves (1976): Power --
A woman/dirge for wasted children --
The black unicorn (1978): The black unicorn --
From the house of Yemanja --
A rock thrown into the water does not fear the cold --
125th Street and Abomey --
At first I thought you were --
Walking our boundaries --
Eulogy for Alvin Frost --
A song for many movements --
The same death over and over --
A woman/dirge for wasted children --
Pathways: from mother to mother --
Death dance for a poet --
Dream/songs from the moon of Beulah Land I-V --
Bicentennial poem # 21,000,000 --
But what can you teach my daughter --
From inside an empty purse --
"Never take fire from a woman" --
A glossary of African names used in the poems --
(New poems from) Chosen poems: Old and new (1982): The evening news --
Za Ki Tan ke parlay lot --
A poem for women in rage --
Sister, morning is a time for miracles --
Need: a choral of black women's voices --
Our dead behind us (1986): Sisters in arms --
To the poet who happens to be black and the black poet who happens to be a woman --
Berlin is hard on colored girls --
This urn contains earth from German --
Fishing the white water --
The horse casts a shoe --
Every traveler has one Vermont poem --
Burning the water hyacinth --
Over you and the Verrazano Bridge --
There are no honest poems.
Never to dream of spiders --
The marvelous arithmetics of distance (1993): Smelling the wind --
Making love to concrete --
Thanks to Jesse Jackson --
The politics of addiction --
Restoration: a memorial-9/18/91 --
Starting all over again --
What it means to be beautiful --
The night-blooming Jasmine --
The electric slide boogie.
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