Her Blue Body...Everything She Knows

• African Images, Glimpses from a Tiger's Back
• Love
• Karamojongs
• Chic Freedom's Reflection
• South: The Name of Home
• Hymn
• The Democratic Order
• They Who Feel Death
• On being asked to leave a place of honor..
• 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 beofre one wakes must be glad
• Exercises on Themes from Life

Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems

• The Old Men Used to Sing
• Winking at a Funeral
• Women
• Three Dollars Cash
• You Had to Go to Funerals
• Uncles
• They Take a Little Nip.
• 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...The Living Through

• 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

Good Night, Wille Lee, I'll See you in the Morning

• Introduction
• Confession
• Did This Happen to Your Mother...
• More Love to His Life
• Gift
• Never Offer 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

On Stripping bark From Myself. . .

• Janie Crawford
• Moody
• Now That Book is Finished
• Having Eaten Two Pillows
• Light baggage
• On Stripping Bark from Myself
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Early Losses: A Requiem

• Early Losses: A Requiem
• In Uganda an Early
• Forgive Me if My Praises
• The Abduction of Saints
• Malcolm

Facing the Way

• (in answer to your silly question
• Streaking (a phenomenon following..
• "Women of Color' Have Rarely Had ..
• facing the way
• talking to my grandmother who died poor..
• January 10,1973

Forgiveness

• Introduction
• 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..
• 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

We Have A Beautiful Mother: Uncollected Poems

• 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