Her blue body everything we know: earthling poems, 1965-1990 complete

African images, Glimplses from a tiger's back

Love

Karamojongs

Once

Chic freedom's reflection

South: The name of home

Hymn

The democratic order: Such things in twenty years I understood

They who feel death

On being asked to leave a place of honor for one of comfort; preferably in the northern suburbs

The enemy

Compulsory chapel

To the man in the yellow terry

The kiss

What Ovid taught me

Mornings/ of an impossible love

So we've come at last to freud

Johann

The smell of Lebanon

Warning

The black prince

Medicine

Ballad of the brown girl

Suicide

Excuse

To die before one wakes must be glad

Exercises on themes from life.

In these dissenting times ... surrounding ground and autobiography

i. The old men used to sing

ii. Winking at a funeral

iii. Women

iv. Three dollars cash

v. You had to go to funerals

vi. Uncles

vii. They take a little nip

viii. Sunday school, circa 1950

Burial

For my sister Molly who in the fifties

Eagle Rock

Baptism

J, my good friend (another foolish innocent)

View from Rosehill Cemetery: Vicksburg

Revolutionary petunias

Expect nothing

Be nobody's darling

Reassurance

Nothing is right

Crucifixions

Black mail

Lonely particular

Perfection

The girl who died #1

Ending

Lost my voice? Of course.

The girl who died #2

The old warrior terror

Judge every one with perfect calm

The QPP

He said come

Mysteries ... the living beyond

Mysteries

Gift

Clutter-up people

Thief

Will

Rage

Storm

What the finger writes

Forbidden things

No fixed place

New face.

The nature of this flower is to bloom

While love is unfashionable

Beyond what

The nature of this flower is to bloom

Confession

Did this happen to your mother? Did your sister throw up a lot?

More love to his live

Gift

Never off your heart to someone who eats hearts

Threatened

My husband says

Confession

The instant of our parting

He said:

The last time

After the shrink

At first

Janie Crawford

Moody

Now that the book is finished

Having eaten two pillows

Light baggage

On stripping bark from myself

Early losses: A requiem

In Uganda an early king

Forgive me if my praises

The abduction of saints

Malcolm

(In answer to your silly question)

Streaking (a phenomenon following the sixties)

"'Women of color' have rarely had the opportunity to write about their love affairs"

Facing the way

Talking to my grandmother who died poor (while hearing Richard Nixon declare "I am not a crook.")

January 10, 1973

Your soul shines

Forgiveness

Even as I hold you

"Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning."

Remember?

These mornings of rain

First, they said

Listen

S M

The diamonds on Liz's Bosom

We alone

Attentiveness

1971

Every morning

How poems are made: A discredited view

Mississippi winter I

Mississippi winter II

Mississippi winter III

Mississippi winter IV

Love is not concerned

She said:

Walker

Killers

Songless

A few sirens

Poem at thirty-nine

I said to poetry

Gray

Overnights

My daughter is coming!

When Golda Meir was in Africa

If "those people" like you

On sight

I'm really very fond

Representing the universe

Family of

Each one, pull one

Who?

Without commercials

No one can watch the Wasichu

The thing itself

Torture

Well.

Song

These days

My heart has reopened to you

Some things I like about my triple bloods

Telling

Pagan

Natural star

If there was any justice

Beast

Ndebele

We have a map of the world

The right to life

Armah

The awakening

A woman is not a potted plant

Winnie Mandela we love you

We have a beautiful mother

Once, again.