Transcircularities: New & Selected Poems, Vol. 1 Book

	Ode to John Coltrane	3
	Poem for Friends	9
	For Malcolm, who Walks in the Eyes of our Children	14
	Come Sing a Song	19
	South African Bloodstone	20
	Profilin, a Rap/Poem	21
	Midtown Traffic	24
	Chicago	26
	The Syntax of the Mind Grips	28
	Weather Report in Lincoln Nebraska 2/8/71	30
	White Weekend	31
	Woke Up Crying the Blues	32
	Vision	34
	In Texas Grass	37
	Three for the Biafran War	38
	In Seventy-Five Syllables	39
	In the Manner of Rabearivello	40
	Dream Poem/Song	41
	Rain/Time	43
	Dream/Dance	45
	Birds Fly without Motion to the Summit	46
	Beneath the Bluest Sea	47
	Embryo	48
	Ash Doors & Juju Guitars	53
	Up Sun South of Alaska: A Short African American History Song	54
	These Crossings, These Words	57
	Snake-Song Slithering Towards Evel	59
	New York City Beggar	62
	After Hearing a Radio Announcement	64
	Steel Poles Give Back no Sweat	65
	Snow & Ice	67
	A Surrealistic Poem to Everyone & No One in Particular	68
	From Richmond College, Postmarked - Manhattan	70
	The Old People Speak of Death	73
	Legon, Ghana, after Dark	75
	Ghanaian Song - Image	77
	Igbobi Night	78
	Memory	79
	Out Here Where	79
	It Is Not	80
	In a Silence of Bells	82
	In Memory of Bunchy Carter	83
	The Other Night	84
	Flying Kites	85
	Transformation	86
	Fireflies	86
	The Day Duke Raised: May 24th, 1984	87
	Four, and More	89
	Snake-Black Solo	93
	Poem for Skunder Boghassian, Painter	96
	Collage	97
	My Poems Have Holes Sewn into Them	98
	Skulls Along the River	103
	South Central Vandenter Street Rundown	111
	River Town Packin House Blues	112
	Poem for my Brother Timmy	116
	Old Black Ladies on Bus Stop Corners	118
	River Rhythm Town	121
	St. Louis Neighborhood	123
	Whose Death Is This Walking	125
	The Sky Empties Down Ice	126
	Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village, 1978	127
	Eighth Avenue Poem	131
	Poem for Lady Day & Dinah Washington	132
	Image	133
	Riff	133
	Impressions 3	134
	Impressions 8	135
	Impressions 12	137
	Impressions 15	138
	Just Cruisin & Writin	139
	Meeting	140
	Harlem Late Night Lyric	141
	The Day Strides There on the Wind	142
	Memos & Buttons	143
	Poem Reaching Towards Something	144
	Las Cruces, New Mexico	146
	It all Boils Down	148
	116th Street & Park Avenue	150
	A Poem for "Magic"	152
	Leon Thomas at the Tin Palace	154
	Untitled 3	156
	Male Springtime Ritual	157
	Eye Throw my Rope Tongue into the Sky	159
	A Thought for You, Margaret	160
	A Poem for Ojenke & K. Curtis Lyle	161
	Southern Lyric; Ritual	163
	Conjuring Against Alien Spirits	164
	Passing on the Legacy	166
	New York City Stream Poem	168
	At the End	170
	Perennial Ritual	173
	Boomerang: A Blatantly Political Poem	175
	Les Cayes, Haiti & Religions on Parade: 1984	178
	In Jimmy's Garden	180
	In Memoriam	182
	Avalanche Aftermath	184
	Porter, at 18 Months	185
	Change	186
	Simple Joys	187
	Eye Walk	188
	Tout De Meme - Nice & Malibu	188
	21 Lines to Carnot, Guadeloupian Master Drummer	189
	Poem for my Father	190
	Poem for the Root Doctor of Rock N Roll	192
	Reflections on Growing Older	194
	Falling Down Roads of Sleep	195
	Untitled	196
	Following the North Star Boogaloo	197
	The Sound, Breaking Away	203
	Watch Out for Sound Bites & Spin Doctors	205
	A Response to all You "Angry White Males"	206
	Eye Change Dreams	209
	Slippin' & Slidin' Over Syllables for Fun with some Politics Thrown in on the Side	212
	& Syllables Grow Wings There	214
	Looking at Both Sides of a Question	215
	One for Charlie Mingus	217
	Reflections	218
	Collage	222
	Avalanche	225
	Let's Say You Are Who	228
	The Absoluteness of Seconds	231
	Borders: Improvisations on a Theme	232
	Untitled	245
	Chuckanut Drive, South of Bellingham, Washington	245
	San Juan Island Image	245
	Back to the Dream Time: Miles Speaks from the Dead	246
	La Jolla	247
	The Flip Side of Time	248
	Flight	249
	Stillness	250
	Birth Form: Tercetina	251
	The View from Skates in Berkeley	252
	Song	257
	Sestina for 39 Silent Angels	258
	Forty-One Seconds on a Sunday in June, in Salt Lake City, Utah	260
	Can You Chain your Voice to a River?	261
	Gray Day in January in La Jolla	265
	Time Line of Breath & Music	267
	Two for the Piano Players at the Spruce Street Forum	269
	Synchronicity in Bologna, Italy	272
	Sighting Birds at the Beach	275
	Mother	277
	Jerez De La Frontera	279
	The Point Loma Poems: Written for the Wastewater Management Project	282
	The Point Loma Series of Halkus & Tankas	289
	Your Lover's Eyes Speak	291
	Come Closer	292
	Broken in Parts: A Healing Song for Saxophone & Voice	293
	Bells	298
	Choruses	300
	Words that Build Bridges Toward a New Tongue	305
	In Remembrance of you, Italo	313
	Bulletin from the Idiot Tube	317
	Random Mishaps	318
	Flying Predators	320
	9/11 Emergency Calls Coming into Manhattan	321
	Moving Toward the Open, the Light	327
	Reconfigurations	329
	Fragmented Solos, Patterns, & Textures; Other Worlds; The Paintings of Philip Taafe	331
	Pulse & Breathe	334
	What the Poetic Line Holds	335
	One Summer View: In Port Townsend, Washington	336
	Spring Day in La Jolla; 2000	338
	Fast Lane	340
	Memory, as a Circle	342
	Shades of Blue for a Blue Bridge	344
	Transcircularities	346