Poems
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- 50-50
- Brass Spittoons
- Catch
- Harlem
- Harlem Sweeties
- Madam’s Past History
- Morning After
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers
- Theme for English B
- The Weary Blues
- Sylvester’s Dying Bed
- The earth shakes
- An Answer to Another Persuading a Lady to Marriage
- Epitaph
- Friendship’s Mystery, To my Dearest Lucasia
- On the Welsh Language
- To Mr. Henry Lawes
- To Mrs. M. A. Upon Absence
- To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship
- Of Molluscs
- The Work of Happiness
- A Country Incident
- Harlem Riot, 1943
- To the Oppressors
- Words
- Mr. Roosevelt Regrets (Detroit Riot, 1943)
- The Star-Apple Kingdom
- Map of the New World
- The Season of Phantasmal Peace
- from The Prodigal: 11
- from The Prodigal: 12
- from The Prodigal: 14
- Bleecker Street, Summer
- The Fist
- from The Prodigal: 10
- Sea Grapes
- Becune Point
- At the Hour of Closing
- Ode on the Centenary of the Birth of Robert Browning
- The Princess on the Headland
- The Skull of Shakespeare
- Sonnets by the Night-Sea (VI)
- Leaves
- To the Rain
- Six Quatrains
- Tired
- Her Head
- We Old Dudes
- From Midnight Elegy
- Proem
- The Beauty of Black
- The Drum Major of the Freedom Parade
- Homage to Black Madonnas
- Let It Be Known
- What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black (Reflections of an African-American Mother)
- What Shall We Tell Our Children? An Addenda, 1973
- Address to Venus
- The Posture
- Errory
- Beautiful Habit
- Gaslight
- Gracious Living ‘Tara’
- The University of Essex
- The Vein
- You've Ruined My Evening/You've Ruined My Life
- Changing the Front Porch Light for Thanksgiving
- Blackout
- Busy Day at the Office
- A Copywriter's Christmas
- Down with Bluebirds
- Here Today and Gone Tomorrow
- Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
- Lines to a Budding Poet
- Taking Everything into Consideration
- Virtue is its Own Reward
- At The Zoo
- Didn't You Ever Search For Another Star?
- Walkative, Talkative
- All night I hear the noise of water sobbing
- Sex, Night
- Oakland Blues
- Points of View
- Chattanooga
- American Airlines Sutra
- The Author Reflects on His 35th Birthday
- Badman of the Guest Professor
- The Black Cock
- Dialog Outside the Lakeside Grocery
- If my Enemy is a Clown, a Natural Born Clown
- The Pope Replies to the Ayatollah Khomeini
- Sather Tower Mystery
- What You Mean I Can’t Irony?
- Kashmiri Song
- Defense Mechanism
- For a Girl Killed at Sea
- Insanity
- On the Crash of an Airliner at Takeoff
- Warning from a Visitor in the Control Tower
- The Legs of the Sky
- A Walk in the River
- Au Magasin de Nouveautes
- Crow’s-eye view: Poem number eleven
- Accounts Payable
- First Thing
- Monogram
- Signature Song
- Song for Connie
- The Obvious Tradition
- Christmas Eve
- October
- Thuringian Equals
- Variation
- Kin 2
- Makin’ Jump Shots
- Here Where Coltrane Is
- The Love Letters of Helen Pitts Douglass
- American History
- Clan Meeting: Births and Nations: A Blood Song
- Dear John, Dear Coltrane
- Debridement
- Double Elegy
- Grandfather
- Jazz Station
- The Militance of a Photograph in the Passbook of a Bantu under Detention
- Nightmare Begins Responsibility
- Sandra: At the Beaver Trap
- The Aim Was Song
- The Census-Taker
- Fragmentary Blue
- Gathering Leaves
- In a Disused Graveyard
- The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
- Not to Keep
- Nothing Gold Can Stay
- The Runaway
- Christmas Trees
- The Gift Outright
- The Death of the Hired Man
- Home Burial
- Love and a Question
- Mowing
- October
- ‘Out, Out—’
- The Sound of Trees
- Reluctance
- Acquainted with the Night
- After Apple-Picking
- Birches
- Dust of Snow
- Fire and Ice
- Fireflies in the Garden
- For Once, Then, Something
- Good-by and Keep Cold
- Mending Wall
- The Oven Bird
- Range-finding
- The Road Not Taken
- The Star-splitter
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- To E. T.
- The Tuft of Flowers
- The Wood-Pile
- “Where did the handsome beloved go?”
- Cancer, or, The Crab
- Capricornus, or, The Goat
- Scorpio, or, The Scorpion
- The Short Answer
- A blue anchor grains of grit in a tall sky sewing
- The One Thing That Can Save America
- Day Bump
- Late-ish
- Mean Particles
- People Behaving Badly a Concern
- The Mauve Notebook
- Alms for the Beekeeper
- Blueprints and Others
- Bunch of Stuff
- By Guess and by Gosh
- Dramedy
- A Worldly Country
- This Room
- Anticipated Stranger,
- Crossroads in the Past
- Hotel Lautréamont
- How to Continue
- If You Said You Would Come With Me
- Sleepers Awake
- Boundary Issues
- El Dorado
- Leave the Hand In
- Uptick
- And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name
- The Bungalows
- ... by an Earthquake
- Chinese Whispers
- Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
- Glazunoviana
- The Instruction Manual
- Last Month
- Like a Sentence