From the Book - First Edition.
Without the pelt of a lion --
Standing in the Atlantic --
The alphabet, for Naima --
In rehearsal for the funeral --
Sovereign silence, or The city --
American landscaping, Philadelphia to Mount Vernon --
The broken fields mended --
Echo: from the mountains --
Second plague year, black spots on the rose --
Poem, in an old language --
The end of Ghassan Kanafani --
Something about John Coltrane --
Ode to Pablo Neruda's "Ode to a lemon" --
Rich Black, or Best barbarian --
Drapetomania, or James Baldwin as an improvisation --
"Espíritu santo también..." --
Caught in a Black doorway --
As a child of North America --
Future, from beyond the voice of God --
By beauty, from beyond the voice of God --
Your hand to your face blocking the sun --
I can drink the distance, or Fire in the lake --
Journey to Satchidananda --
For Black children at the end of the world
