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Author: MILLER, E. ETHELBERT
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Miller, E. Ethelbert    Poet's Biography
227 poems available by this author


...AND THEN MR. DORSEY WROTE PRECIOUS LORD       
First Line: Not even the blues can comfort me tonight
Last Line: How strange to find my hands so still


14TH STREET STATION       
First Line: I want to hug you close
Last Line: Might one day cross


1907: JAZZ IN NEW ORLEANS       
First Line: They say %buddy bolden
Last Line: Music keeps %me sane


26-MAY-02       
First Line: The lakers won tonight because
Last Line: So you keep shooting


AARON       
First Line: After watching %heston part the
Last Line: Picked the lint %from his hair


ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)       
First Line: I can make %the world move
Last Line: Red metal tickling %air


ALL THAT COULD GO WRONG       
First Line: Now fills my life
Last Line: And every breath is his breath


AM       
First Line: Sunrise and the dew
Last Line: Grass grows without you


ANGELA       
First Line: I was too young to do the lord's work
Last Line: The lord already knew where I was


ANNA MURRAY DOUGLASS       
First Line: I cannot read the north star
Last Line: Before he married the white woman


ANOTHER LOVE AFFAIR/ANOTHER POEM       
First Line: It was afterwards %when we were in the shower
Last Line: About what?' I asked


ASK ME NOW       
First Line: Like thelonius monk %I record my love for you
Last Line: The strange way %it makes you feel


AUTUMN       
First Line: The bay %near seattle
Last Line: The legs of autumn cross the street %too soon


BALDWIN    Poem Text    
First Line: You lie in bed listening
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons


BARNES & NOBLE       
First Line: We pull a copy of %the best american
Last Line: David lehman know about %us?


BATH       
First Line: Perhaps it would %have been better
Last Line: Like water from %your breasts


BEFORE HIP HOP    Poem Text    
Subject(s): Cool Personality


BILLIE HOLIDAY    Poem Text    
First Line: Sometimes the deaf
Subject(s): Holiday, Billie (1915-1959)


BIRDS       
First Line: I don't count birds
Last Line: And everyone else is dead


BLACK BOYS       
First Line: Young black boys %sitting with their
Last Line: Their hips as casual %as gunfire


BLOOM       
First Line: I return now to find you as beautiful as fresh cut
Last Line: My hands touching the glass between us and the %sun's sun


BLUE CANDLES       
First Line: So much %love %between %us
Last Line: Your %tongue %melting %into %mine


BOYS OF SUMMER       
First Line: Carlton, patrick and I
Last Line: While turning his back, running full speed %as if he was emmett till


BREAD       
First Line: Your father's skin %was soft like butter
Last Line: Share the bread %between us


BRIDGE       
First Line: We breath e
Last Line: One walks %below


BRINGING BACK THE DRAFT       
First Line: I suck your breasts
Last Line: To go to war


BUD       
First Line: Bud powell plays bird
Last Line: Piano flying with notes %ornithology


CAR PROBLEMS       
First Line: I don't know how to drive
Last Line: This poem is turning green


CARMEN AND THE FIRE ACROSS TOWN       
First Line: My father stood outside watching the fire burn, smoke
Last Line: One day. He never came back


CATHEDRAL OF SAINT MATTHEW       
First Line: Under the dome of love
Last Line: I will be your disciple forever


CATS       
First Line: Rain falls %in seattle
Last Line: And leap to dry window sills to see in


CHALK       
First Line: The women on the bus wore no stockings
Last Line: We were and what I had become


CHINATOWN       
First Line: In the morning


CHOIRBOY WITH A HORN       
First Line: I was a choirboy until
Last Line: And the blues came down


CITY       
First Line: Although we live in the same city
Last Line: We let our friends die alone


CO-STAR       
First Line: My sister %a philosopher
Last Line: Women have such ugly men?


CONJURE       
First Line: This is how %I remember you
Last Line: This movement %so gentle %this


CONVERSATION       
First Line: I told her...She had very nice hips
Last Line: I said...I like to see where I'm going


CROSETTI       
First Line: Frank crosetti %a gentleman in pinstripes
Last Line: Records made to be broken


DEATH IN THE FAMILY       
First Line: It was dinky's father
Last Line: So much like our own sonny boy?


DEPARTURES & ARRIVALS       
First Line: My mother and I are at the train
Last Line: One of us going somewhere without the other


DID SHE GO TO NEW YORK CITY?       
First Line: There can be nothing theoretical
Last Line: & always see central park


DIVA       
First Line: Feathers on my arms
Last Line: To the applause of tears


DIVINE LOVE    Poem Text    
First Line: I wish I had loved you many years ago
Subject(s): Love


DO NOTHIN' TILL YOU HEAR FROM ME       
First Line: What did ellington mean
Last Line: Piano not made of flesh


DOES EVERYBODY LIVE IN NEW YORK OR AM I THE LAST COWBOY?       
First Line: I have %some unpublished work
Last Line: You want me %to come to brooklyn?


DREAMING ABOUT KATHERINE DUNHAM       
First Line: The sound of their voices
Last Line: Is a step toward heaven


DRESSED UP       
First Line: One day %I'm gonna
Last Line: She hasn't %been


DRUMMERS?       
First Line: The heart %is a drum
Last Line: How deaf %we are


ELIZABETH ALEXANDER       
First Line: I like to say your %name because it sounds
Last Line: Where love is buried %beneath desire


ELIZABETH KECKLEY: 30 YEARS A SLAVE AND 4 YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE    Poem Text    
First Line: Tall man lincoln looking out the windows
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Slavery; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Serfs


EQUATOR       
First Line: So what's that line around your nose
Last Line: I'm too young to see


FAMILY SECRETS       
First Line: In a cabinet near the kitchen
Last Line: She almost gave her child away


FATHER'S DAY       
First Line: My wife asks %'what's wrong with you again?'
Last Line: To let love grow through the weeds


FIFTIES       
First Line: I was born after the holocaust
Last Line: Hands worked in a military factory during the %war
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath


FIRE       
First Line: I am ten years old and share a room


FIRST ROBERTO VARGAS SAID YES,...       
First Line: Roberto (vargas) always told me I should learn spanish. The week before
Last Line: One discovers how small the world is; even in washington one is never %alone


FIRST TIME I SAW YOUR BACK       
Last Line: The steps of your spine


FISH & CHIPS       
First Line: Lovers %holding hands on
Last Line: The smell of fish and passion in %the air


FISHING       
First Line: She laid half on, half off the bed, crying and begging
Last Line: I've done before. Like fishing


FLOWERS & NIKE PLANTS       
First Line: No water %no break
Last Line: As the day I was born


FOR JUNE       
First Line: If I had met you %in '60 or '61
Last Line: Given you everything %all this %and more


FOUR LINES       
First Line: I keep wanting to undress you
Last Line: I fell asleep with you in my mouth


FREEDOM       
First Line: After word spread %about emancipation
Last Line: Put your arms around it


FREEDOM CANDY       
First Line: So what kind of name is omar?
Last Line: Wait until I tell omar


GEOGRAPHY       
First Line: My four year old daughter comes home
Last Line: Round with wonder


GRAY SMOKE OF CLUBS       
First Line: I live my father's life
Last Line: And the gray smoke of clubs


GRENADA       
First Line: Near the beach %grenada enjoyed taking long baths
Last Line: Cuba could be heard crying %in the mountains


HANDS OF CHE GUERVARA       
First Line: Outside bolivia %the poor people of the world wait
Last Line: Revealing a wooden cross


HEART ON FIRE       
Last Line: I am alone and %burning


HI J       
First Line: Our friendship %is what keeps us whole
Last Line: The ceiling and then %we saw the sky


HONEY       
First Line: Your petals open
Last Line: My tongue licks the jar


HONEY & WATERMELONS       
First Line: A man is making a bomb
Last Line: Who looks like me


HOUSE IN PROVINCETOWN       
First Line: Where the two streets meet
Last Line: Your hair walk across my chest


HOUSTON: CHRISTMAS EVE 1954       
First Line: Big mama thornton %sitting backstage
Last Line: And put a gun to %your head


HOW WE SLEEP ON THE NIGHTS WE DON'T MAKE LOVE       
First Line: One night %I looked into my parent's bedroom
Last Line: I closed the door in order to keep their secrets


HUGHES IN RENO, 1934       
First Line: When langston hughes lived in reno
Last Line: In the clear night air


I AM BLACK AND THE TREES ARE GREEN       
First Line: So you point %and say the woods are beautiful
Last Line: The new slaves as invisible as conversation


I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED A WOMAN TO BE MY LOVER       
First Line: How can it be morning in two places at once?
Last Line: When I was in her arms - no man would ever treat me better?


I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A LETTER FROM YOU       
First Line: The wind blows a newspaper down the street
Last Line: The bed in my room cries itself to sleep


IN A SILENT WAY       
First Line: When we were sick
Last Line: Like salt before she left


IN A TIME OF DESIRE       
First Line: In this time of desire
Last Line: Today begins and ends %inside of you


IN EVERY LANGUAGE    Poem Text    
First Line: Remind me (again) how beautiful you are
Subject(s): Love; Language; Words; Vocabulary


IN SHADOWS THERE ARE MEN       
First Line: We were never absent % or invisible
Last Line: How we struggle %to love


IN SMALL TOWN USA       
Last Line: During this moment when being black is all there is


INHERITANCE       
First Line: One week before june
Last Line: Why this inheritance?


INHERITANCE OF ISLANDS       
First Line: One night you try to %remember your father's face
Last Line: The water everywhere still blue


IS IT RAINING IN MEDFORD?       
First Line: In a local newspaper %I discover the photographs
Last Line: The side of the road %the rain falls


IT MUST BE LESTER YOUNG       
First Line: Saturday in august. Marie is down from new york
Last Line: Musician. It must be lester young


KISS       
First Line: Three times I wanted %to kiss you
Last Line: My fingers so wet %from your rain


KOAN       
First Line: Consider %how the %cotton
Last Line: Grows %without %the slave


LA LA LA       
First Line: I stack my old albums
Last Line: It was something just as beautiful


LANGSTON    Poem Text    
First Line: Dark night / the lights of new york
Subject(s): Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)


LANGSTON       
First Line: Dark night %the light of new york
Last Line: I leave him with %the music of the sea


LAS CRUCES       
First Line: We are standing in the middle
Last Line: Do you hear the wind?


LESSONS FROM HOUDINI    Poem Text    
First Line: You practice disappearing
Subject(s): Relationships; Houdini, Harry (1874-1926)


LETTER FROM CAROL       
First Line: Carol's letter arrives today with two other pieces of mail
Last Line: And perhaps need. This too reminds me of love


LETTERS OF BRERBERT, SELS.       
First Line: Maybe I've been here too long. Snakes just get in my way
Last Line: Ain't she? It takes more than wine to live free and dream


LETTERS OF BRERBERT, SELS.       
First Line: Now you know I always brings my own guitar. The music I
Last Line: I got the two confused...Lately the music does sound sweet. %don't it?


LIBERIA FEVER, 1877       
First Line: My youngest comes running
Last Line: Something cured only by the touch of an african %wind


LIGHT ON REBECCA'S BREAST       
First Line: Daylight falling on my chest
Last Line: For something he can no longer touch


LOOKING FOR OMAR    Poem Text    
First Line: I'm in the school bathroom
Subject(s): Youth; Violence; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict


LOOKING FOR OMAR       
First Line: I'm the school bathroom
Last Line: You can't wash your hands from %everything


LOVE INSIDE YOUR TRIANGLE       
First Line: Rain falling %I feel your
Last Line: Your legs surrounding %my morning rise


LOVE, STILL LIFE AND OTHER ITEMS       
First Line: Flowers and apples somewhere on greenwich
Last Line: Held in your hands


LOVER BEHIND A BLUE DOOR       
First Line: By the foot of the bed
Last Line: The door closing again and again


MALCOLM X, 1964       
First Line: There are so many muslims
Last Line: Embrace my soul, there is no god but %allah


MALCOLM X, AUGUST 1952       
First Line: I suppose I should be
Last Line: Country changing. The cross %no longer ours to bear


MALCOLM X, FEBRUARY 1965    Poem Text    
First Line: I will die this month. How
Subject(s): Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965)


MALCOLM X, FEBRUARY 1965       
First Line: I will die this month, how
Last Line: As only I can, may allah be my %witness


MALIK       
First Line: Malik mumbled arabic
Last Line: Of god for taking her man away


MARATHON    Poem Text    
Subject(s): Aging; Running & Runners


MEAL       
First Line: 1 man %1 woman
Last Line: Love fills %2 spoons


MEMORY LOSS       
First Line: I remember it like a page %turning
Last Line: Up your legs %and


MEMPHIS IN SEPTEMBER       
First Line: A man standing on a balcony can change
Last Line: Three men sleep snoring as loud as the blues


MEN: 1       
First Line: Today I saw black men
Last Line: Holding their own
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations


MEN: 2       
First Line: Our streets filled
Last Line: Headlines ourselves
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations


MEN: 3       
First Line: When the world
Last Line: We jab and swing
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations


MEN: 4       
First Line: Black men
Last Line: Black hearts, black %hands
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations


MEN: 5       
First Line: The young men
Last Line: Just big enough %for love
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations


MIAMI IN NOVEMBER       
First Line: The storm is gone
Last Line: Remember my love as home


MIDDLE CLASS ALGERIAN WOMAN IN PARIS TALKS ABOUT FASHION       
First Line: Another day of headlines from algeria
Last Line: I think the soldiers are cute but too much into guns


MIDNIGHT CALLER       
First Line: What could I do?
Last Line: Tonight he killed a man


MISSISSIPPI    Poem Text    
First Line: Death surrounds itself with the living
Subject(s): Names; African Americans; Racism; Mississippi; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


MORNING RAGA       
First Line: Your beauty %is one whole
Last Line: Center %of your %brow


MOSES       
First Line: Her body was on fire beneath his
Last Line: Frightened by the fire in his eyes


MOUNTAIN WIFE       
First Line: In the yard %the truck sits stuck in mud
Last Line: His spit won't make me pregnant


MY BROTHER RICHARD CROSSES THE STREET       
First Line: One day my brother went to sleep and did not awake
Last Line: Wondering what it felt like to cross the street into heaven


MY FATHER IS WASHING HIS FACE       
Last Line: And I reach for the soap in his hand


MY FATHER'S GIRLFRIEND       
First Line: In %new york %my mother opens
Last Line: In her eyes %something my father %fell in love with


MY HOUSE       
First Line: In my house my son slips
Last Line: My house closes with my echo


MY MOTHER WANTS TO BE YOUNG AGAIN       
First Line: After asking about the kids
Last Line: This kiss is like a poem %this poem a kiss


NAILS       
First Line: When my body divided itself into parts
Last Line: Nails exploding in their hearts?


NASRIN       
First Line: Where is my voice?
Last Line: I am eve afraid of adam


NERUDA    Poem Text    
Subject(s): Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973)


NEW YORK (1)       
First Line: How did you find god in this city
Subject(s): New York City


NEW YORK (2)       
First Line: In the pictures we are always
Subject(s): New York City


NEW YORK (3)       
First Line: Each day I think I will leave
Subject(s): New York City


NEW YORK (4)       
First Line: In the 1940s
Subject(s): New York City


NEW YORK: ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL       
First Line: At the foot of the bed
Last Line: Say that would caress? What words could open your eyes?


NEW YORK; (FOR MARIE)    Poem Text    
First Line: In the pictures we are always


NIGHT BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL       
Last Line: On the table next to the %lunch bags and books
Variant Title(s): The Night Before The First Day Of Schoo


NOTHING BUT A MAN       
First Line: When he turns to sleep on his side
Last Line: Rumors leaping to a tape recorder %next door


O(H)       
First Line: Like the second letter
Last Line: Your lips shape the %air I breathe


OH NIGERIA!       
First Line: It's wednesday and it's lunchtime
Last Line: Oh nigeria %(under by breath


OJ REMEMBERS BUFFALO       
First Line: Yes %this is the curse
Last Line: Looking for his missing helmet


OKLAHOMA       
First Line: Wind inside my soul
Last Line: Love swaying like trees


OMAR AND THE BABY YONA       
First Line: Folks call omar's mom
Last Line: Don't she have a %bible?


OMAR IN SCHOOL       
First Line: Sometimes my daddy argues with my momma
Last Line: Only runs on the weekends


OMAR'S HOUSE       
First Line: Most of my socks have holes in them
Last Line: Especially on a saturday morning


OMAR, BOOKS AND ME       
First Line: Folks call omar a bookhead and me a bookend
Last Line: As fast as omar %can turn a page


ORPHAN IN BEIRUT       
First Line: Yesterday %I had a mother and father
Last Line: Yesterday %I had two arms


PAINTING OF A STREET IN BLACK AND BLUE       
First Line: I can feel the summer nights growing cold
Last Line: A young man moaning for a woman gone


PANAMA    Poem Text    
First Line: In the early twenties
Subject(s): Immigrants; Language; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Words; Vocabulary


PLAYERS    Poem Text    
First Line: When mickey mantle died
Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Sports


PLAYERS       
First Line: When mickey mantle died
Last Line: Projects so many could %not escape
Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Sports


POEM FOR RICHARD       
First Line: At two and three in the morning
Last Line: Down the delta with the blues


POEM FOR SEBLE       
First Line: In the refrigerator


PORT-AU-PRINCE    Poem Text    
First Line: Nside the car
Subject(s): Haiti; Duvalier, Jean-claude


PORTRAIT IN NINE LINES       
First Line: I want to hold your face in my hands
Last Line: This is the portrait of you I love


PORTRAIT OF YES IN FOURTEEN LINES       
First Line: I want to hold your face in my hands
Last Line: Will say yes to everything you do


POST-CARD FROM GENEVA       
First Line: You tell me about your vacation
Last Line: How you say so much %in such little space


RAIN       
First Line: The storm passes and I hear your voice
Last Line: You take. What can I say that will make %it rain again?


REBECCA       
First Line: Will I hate mirrors
Last Line: Now that it is no longer complete


REBECCA HIDES HER SCAR       
First Line: The affair %was about finding the rest of me
Last Line: I call my lover's name, and he answers


REBECCA LETS DOWN HER HAIR       
First Line: I am a victim
Last Line: My hair %no longer %in my eyes


RIVER       
First Line: Let us meet %near the river
Last Line: Your love is water


ROSA PARKS DREAMS       
First Line: Rosa parks dreams about
Last Line: Frame. Wild flowers stare from %a field


ROY CAMPANELLA: JANUARY, 1958       
First Line: Night as dark as the inside
Last Line: Tries to steal home


RUNNING WITH THE BULLS       
First Line: Morning conversations %coffee and tea
Last Line: Asking for nickels %dimes and daily grace


SALAT       
First Line: Poetry is prayer %light dancing inside words
Last Line: What is in my heart %I recite your name


SCIENCE       
First Line: When you were in elementary school
Last Line: Jazz you hear cannot keep you from %exploding like a star


SEA       
First Line: Neruda once told me


SEDUCTION OF LIGHT       
First Line: I place your slippers together and place them
Last Line: I slip my shoes on


SEE       
First Line: Seeing you %is like seeing you
Last Line: I said it again %see


SIDEWINDER, 1972       
First Line: Lee morgan dead and my roommate
Last Line: Tell him jazz is just another woman %with beautiful legs


SISTER SHEBA, OMAR & ME       
First Line: Sister sheba %she's my cousin
Last Line: You think mrs. Bernstein knows?


SKY       
First Line: Where is my hat?
Last Line: To measure this %morning fog


SLAVE STRIPPED BARE BY HER MASTER, EVEN       
First Line: My torn dress falls from my shoulders
Last Line: Once stripped bare by her master, even


SNEAKERS    Poem Text    
First Line: When there were cracks
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


SOMETIMES I THINK OF LOVING YOU       
Last Line: Desire was to walk into morning %and find us together


SONG FOR AN ANGEL       
First Line: Middle eastern blues
Last Line: That's wrong with the world


SPACE IS THE PLACE       
First Line: Love is the last planet in our solar
Last Line: Hands nothing but gravity


SPANISH CONVERSATION       
First Line: In cuba, %a dark skin woman asks me
Last Line: She finds this difficult to believe %at times I do too


SPEECHLESS IN SEPTEMBER       
First Line: It was the first day of science fiction
Last Line: Who let the dogs out?


SPONGE       
First Line: On the corner we called him sponge
Last Line: First pages of this new testament


SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK       
First Line: On the nights when the sky comes down
Last Line: We make this world holy once again


TERRORISM       
First Line: My mother did not need terrorism
Last Line: Meat from the corner store


THE BOYS OF SUMMER    Poem Text    
First Line: Carlton, patrick and I
Last Line: As if he were emmett till
Subject(s): Baseball


THE EAR IS AN ORGAN MADE FOR LOVE    Poem Text    
First Line: It was the language that left us first
Subject(s): Language; Love; Music & Musicians; Words; Vocabulary


THE MEN: 1    Poem Text    
First Line: Today I saw black men
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


THE MEN: 2    Poem Text    
First Line: Our streets filled
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


THE MEN: 3    Poem Text    
First Line: When the world
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


THE MEN: 4    Poem Text    
First Line: Black men
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


THE MEN: 5    Poem Text    
First Line: The young men
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


THE THINGS IN BLACK MEN?ÇÖS CLOSETS    Poem Text    
First Line: On the top shelf
Subject(s): African Americans; Death; Clothing & Dress; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The


THE VOICE OF ARETHA FRANKLIN SURPRISES ME    Poem Text    
First Line: In riyadh the wind blows the last prayer
Variant Title(s): The Voice Of Aretha Franklin Surprised Me
Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Franklin, Aretha (b. 1942); Riyadh, Saudi Arabia


THERE ARE NIGHTS       
Last Line: Never be silent when we have %so much to say


THERE IS NO NEED FOR US       
Last Line: One moment in a life of many


THIS IS BETTER THAN A LETTER FROM FRANCE       
First Line: A black soldier returns home from the war
Last Line: I watch it fall peacefully to the ground


THOSE SEINFELD DAYS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENS EXCEPT I LOVE YOU    Poem Text    
First Line: Even on bad days
Subject(s): News; Disinterest; Love


THROWING STONES AT THE PORNO STAR       
First Line: It was I who threw the first stone
Last Line: I? Is this not the blessing of believers?


TOMORROW    Poem Text    
First Line: Tomorrow / I will take the
Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


TOMORROW       
First Line: Tomorrow %I will take the %journey back
Last Line: To continue to %live among %knives and forks


TOOTHPASTE       
First Line: After dinner
Last Line: I like to brush %after every meal


TWO WOMEN: OR A CCONVERSATION WITH SAHARA NILE    Poem Text    
Last Line: & she put her arms around me
Subject(s): Love; Change; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


TYSON'S CORNER       
First Line: The bell rings %and my jail cell opens
Last Line: Don't knock on my door at night


UNEMPLOYMENT       
First Line: U once said %that u could never
Last Line: Have the things u can %put your hands on


UNTITLED       
First Line: Where are the love poems for dictators
Last Line: In the wall %my words like women kiss his eyes


UNTITLED       
First Line: I've been %kissing %your eyes %too long
Last Line: Haven't %your %lips %noticed?


URBAN ZEN       
First Line: My blood %in the street
Last Line: My %neighbor %moved %to %where?


VICTORIA SITTING IN USDAN GALLERY       
First Line: A man could fall
Last Line: Away from your face


W. E. B. DUBOIS       
First Line: In philadelphia %I studied the negro
Last Line: There is so %much to learn


WACO, TEXAS       
First Line: Somewhere north
Last Line: What else is there to hold?


WALK IN THE DAYTIME IS JUST AS DANGEROUS AS A WALK IN THE NIGHT       
First Line: A simple dirt road %surrounded by all these mountains
Last Line: As real as this dirt beneath %my feet


WAVES       
First Line: I rise tall and dark
Last Line: I watch the waves come


WHAT DOES E STAND FOR?    Poem Text    
First Line: Everything / each eye exists embracing exceptional emerald evenings
Subject(s): E (letter Of Alphabet)


WHAT DOES THE E STAND FOR?       
First Line: Everything
Last Line: E evokes every ecstatic emotion


WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN       
First Line: For 6 months %a man could be
Last Line: Roundness and felt %her world move


WHEN WE ARE ALONE       
First Line: I let the children %climb into my bed. They
Last Line: To hold us. We need the words to %keep us warm


WHISPERS, SECRETS AND PROMISES       
First Line: Afternoon %and your eyes walk
Last Line: A metaphor %for things left %unsaid


WHO WOULD DO SUCH A THING?       
First Line: The last few hours
Last Line: Of the hell we're in


WHY IS IT GREEK OMELET AND NOT PUERTO RICAN?    Poem Text    
First Line: Every morning / I look for you
Subject(s): Desire


WOMEN       
First Line: My braids are extensions of my mother's hands
Last Line: The wrinkles in my skin are the rivers of life


XANDO       
First Line: The world is going to work
Last Line: Why do I mistake the loneliness %of a napkin for my heart?


YONA CATCHES A CAB       
First Line: We are so silly
Last Line: Is where friendship %never ends


YOU SEND ME: BERTHA FRANKLIN, DECEMBER 11, 1964       
First Line: What am I suppose to do
Last Line: Room next door. Her hands holding %the pants of love