Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century Book

	After the 200th White Person Locks Her Car {...}	3
	Exits from Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana	4
	Born	8
	Trying to Sleep After Studying Color Photos {...}	9
	Invisibles	10
	Barrage	12
	The Woman Who Jumped	14
	Bound	15
	Soul Roots	16
	1619. Virginia	17
	1691. Tituba of Salem	18
	From the Spirit of Phillis Wheatley {...}	19
	Gone	21
	If Harriet Tubman Were Alive Today	22
	Circumcising Pandora	24
	Praisesong: From Son to Mother	26
	Harvest	27
	Dream of Mango	28
	Thermometer	29
	Defensive driving	30
	Locks	32
	Port Townsend Poems	33
	Haiku	36
	Memorial	37
	Memory of Wings	38
	Returning the Water	40
	I Am a Creature of the Obvious	41
	Refugee	44
	Moons ... tides	45
	Legacy	46
	When Africa Speaks	47
	African Sunrunner	48
	Senegal Sestina	49
	Tattoo, or Henna	51
	Meditations I	52
	White	54
	Blue	56
	Passing Through This House	57
	Objects of Desire	59
	Poem for the Purchase of a First Bra	62
	Michele	64
	At Five	65
	Help	67
	Anotherday	69
	Washboard Wizard	70
	The Prayer of Miss Budd	73
	Drifter	75
	Love Song of a Red Cap	76
	Landmarks	77
	For my 27th birthday	78
	A Debt is Paid	80
	Boy at the Paterson Falls	81
	Walking On: A Declaration of Wholeness	82
	Something Terrible Something	85
	Pretty White Girls	86
	Gentleman at the Barbershop	87
	Roots	88
	Black Drag Queen	89
	Fruitbowl 1	90
	I Know I Aint Hip No More	91
	Revolutionary Thoughts	93
	Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing	95
	In Search of Aunt Jemima	97
	Raindrop Women	99
	What I Am	101
	To the People of a Small Town in Ohio ...	103
	The Tar Baby on the Soapbox	105
	Beaches	106
	Vivian, Take 57	107
	Annuals and Perennials	109
	Mississippi on the Doorstep	111
	The Love of Travellers	112
	Smile	113
	Work to be Done	115
	The Fitting Room	116
	Land of the Lost	118
	City in You	119
	Peace Be Still	120
	Untitled	122
	American Sonnet (46)	124
	Black on Black	125
	Memorial Drive	127
	Sunday	129
	Going Home	130
	Leaving Winston-Salem	131
	Charleston, South Carolina	132
	My Mother	133
	We	134
	Gullah Women	136
	JoNelle	138
	Things No One Told Me	139
	Integration	141
	Dirt	142
	After an All Day Skirmish with the Clouds	143
	Blackbottom	144
	Baltimore	145
	Lost	147
	Child in the New Delhi Sun	148
	Threnody	149
	Soledad	152
	Meridian Hill Terrace	153
	7-30-96	155
	Brother is a Star	156
	Call and Response	157
	Snapshot: West Philly	158
	The Bible Buckle	159
	Saints	160
	How to Make It	161
	Audre's Son	164
	It's a Dog's Life	165
	Dungle sublime	166
	Yellow is Me, But All the Same Are We	167
	An Irresistible Light	168
	April 19,19 -: A Sonnet	170
	Bruised Children	171
	Worry All the Time	172
	Midnight in Mississippi	175
	For the Man I Met on Georgia Ave	176
	My Family	177
	Mother's Day at McDonald's	178
	The Major	180
	Hazing	181
	Father and Son	183
	Father's shoes	184
	Father country	185
	100 Times	187
	Those I love are sometimes white	188
	Paralyzed	189
	The Museum Cashier	190
	Dedicated to the domestics	192
	Astrology?	194
	Moon Daughters	195
	Passing	196
	Sterling Brown	198
	Matisse, Cut Outs	199
	Stranger in the Village	200
	They Do Not Have to Nest in Your Hair	201
	Rain Making	202
	Thoughts From a 747	203
	Space	204
	High School	207
	Tattooed Girl	209
	Cross Burning Black	210
	She-Ghosts of Tiresias	211
	The Science of Forgetting	213
	The Lock and Key	215
	Spirit of the Dancer	219
	As Dancers	220
	Help is a Discotheque	221
	For lester	222
	Bird	223
	Mom Used to Listen to Erroll Garner	224
	John Birks Gillespie: an appreciation {...}	225
	Chittlin's	227
	Thelonius	228
	Monk	230
	Monk's Misterioso	231
	The Fourth Supreme	232
	Stevie Wonder	234
	The Mighty Blood	235
	Noon Talk at Georgia's Coffee Shop	236
	Burn Rubber on Me	238
	Photo of Ron Carter, Playing His Bass	239
	Savannah Brass	240
	Set Piece	242
	A Thousand Marionettes	243
	Verbal gun shots	244
	Dr. Jack	245
	Vipers, Flies, and Women of the Cloth	249
	Visiting Hours	250
	Concerning Violence	251
	Rehearsal	252
	Alley Games 6/the ascension	253
	Glass Box Puzzle No. 1	254
	December 12th	255
	Examination	256
	A White Man and the Judge	257
	The Good Ole Days	258
	I Love You, Though You're Unemployed	259
	If there's no sugar	260
	The Edge	261
	The subtle art of breathing	262
	Who Sez Thunderbirds Can't Fly	266
	Imperialism-The Dancing Do Not Die	268
	Park mole	270
	The Artifice of War	272
	Generation Gap	273
	Funeral	275
	Say Something: A Change is Gonna Come	277
	Some Solace, Some Yearning	280
	In Oklahoma	281
	Black tax	282
	What is left	283
	A Guard	285
	Sorrow Song	286
	1st Lt. Vernon J. Baker: Hero on the Hill	287
	Staff. Sgt. Edward A. Carter, Jr. {...}	290
	1st Lt. John R. Fox: Rain of Fire	293
	The Names of Summer: A War Memory	295
	At the Jackson Pollock Retrospective in L.A.	298
	Our Second Night	300
	Letter from Kuwait	303
	A Black soldier	304
	Four and Twenty Soldiers	305
	Come and See My Little Toys	306
	Homeless Vets	307
	Suicides and Fools	308
	Lights of the Bigtop	309
	This mortal coil	311
	The Plea	315
	Girlfriend	316
	To Keep from Shouting Something	317
	Our Mothers	319
	She kneels at the wailing wall	321
	Color-Struck	322
	For My Mother	324
	For My Mother	326
	Fallen Bodies	327
	The Long Walk Home	328
	Back road	329
	Grand Diva	330
	To adam	331
	Grandma	332
	While Communing with a Tree {...}	333
	Friendly Skies	335
	And all the sisters said ...	336
	Angry sisters	337
	Three men	338
	Untitled	339
	For Fatma and Her Co-wives	340
	What is There for Us?	341
	Be Careful When You Go Looking {...}	344
	Rising	348
	Cycles	349
	Meetin the Conjure Woman	350
	Wet Oak	351
	Hands	352
	The Beelzebub Chronicles	353
	Stringbeans	354
	The Star	355
	Private Thoughts	356
	Sin, 1969	357
	Lines	358
	Midnight	359
	Ashy Gal	360