From Embryo (BARLENMIR HOUSE, 1972) --
The Syntax of the Mind Grips --
Weather Report in Lincoln Nebraska 2/8/71 --
Woke Up Crying the Blues --
Three for the Biafran War --
In Seventy-five Syllables --
In the Manner of Rabearivello --
Birds Fly without Motion to the Summit --
Beneath the Bluest Sea --
From Snake-Back Solos: Selected Poems, 1969 -- 1977 (L. REED BOOKS, 1978) --
Ash Doors & Juju Guitars --
Up Sun South of Alaska --
These Crossings, These Words --
After Hearing A Radio Announcement: A Comment on Some Conditions --
Steel Poles Give Back No Sweat --
A Surrealistic Poem to Everyone & No One in Particular --
From Richmond College, Postmarked -- Manhattan --
Legon, Ghana, After Dark --
Igbobi, Nigerian Night --
In Memory of Bunchy Carter --
The Day Duke Raised: May 24th, 1984 --
Poem for Skunder Boghossian, Painter --
My Poems Have Holes Sewn into Them --
From Skulls along the River (L. REED BOOKS, 1984) --
Skulls along the River --
South Central Vandeventer Street Rundown --
River Town Packin House Blues --
Poem for My Brother Timmy --
Old Black Ladies on Bus Stop Corners --
Whose Death Is This Walking towards Me Now --
The Sky Empties Down Ice --
Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village, 1978 --
Poem for Lady Day & Dinah Washington --
Harlem Late Night Lyric --
The Day Strides There on the Wind --
Las Cruces, New Mexico --
116th Street & Park Avenue --
Leon Thomas at the Tin Palace --
Eye Throw My Rope Tongue into the Sky --
A Thought for You, Margaret --
A Poem for Ojenke & K. Curtis Lyle --
Southern Lyric; Ritual --
New York City Stream Poem --
From Weather Reports: New Poems, 1984 -- 1990 (HARLEM RIVER PRESS / WRITERS AND READERS, 1991) --
Boomerang: A Blatantly Political Poem --
Les Cayes, Haiti & 3 Religions on Parade: 1984 --
Tout de Meme -- Nice & Malibu --
21 Lines to Carnot, Guadeloupean Master Drummer --
Poem for the Root Doctor of Rock n Roll --
Reflections on Growing Older --
Falling Down Roads of Sleep --
Following the North Star Boogaloo --
From Avalanche (COFFEE HOUSE PRESS, 1996) --
The Sound, Breaking Away --
Watch Out for Sound Bites & Spin Doctors --
A Response to All You "Angry White Males" --
Slippin' & Slidin' Over Syllables for Fun --
And Syllables Grow Wings There --
One for Charlie Mingus --
The Old People Speak of Death --
Conjuring Against Alien Spirits --
The Absoluteness of Seconds --
For Malcolm, Who Walks in the Eyes of Our Children --
Male Springtime Ritual --
The View from Skates in Berkeley --
From Choruses (COFFEE HOUSE PRESS, 1999) --
Sestina for 39 Silent Angels --
Forty-one Seconds on a Sunday in June, in Salt Lake City, Utah --
Gray Day in January in La Jolla --
The Point Loma Series of Haikus & Tankas --
Your Lover's Eyes Speak --
Words that Build Bridges Toward a New Tongue --
From Transcircularities: New and Selected Poems (COFFEE HOUSE PRESS, 2002) --
9/11 Emergency Calls Coming into Manhattan --
What the Poetic Line Holds --
One Summer View; in Port Townsend, Washington --
Shades of Blue for a Blue Bridge --
From The Architecture of Language (COFFEE HOUSE PRESS, 2006) --
Three Sevens: 21 Lines Hoping for Change --
Eye Am Forever Looking for Shadows --
Memory, as A Circle: For the Love Eye Lost in Hurricane Audrey --
For Richard Pryor: 1940 -- 2005 --
In Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe --
A Kite above the Beach --
The Moon Is A Lemon Wedge --
Sometimes in Montebello --
The Old Black Man Walking --
Eye Am Thinking of Moments --
We Have Come Here Again --
What Is It Poetry Seeks --
Switchin' in the Kitchen --
The Architecture of Language --
From Errancities (COFFEE HOUSE PRESS, 2012) --
Las Cruces, New Mexico Revisited --
Where Have They All Gone --
After Seeing An Image in Ashland, Oregon --
A Hard Quick Rainstorm in Manhattan --
Sounds of New York City --
2002 Manhattan Snapshot: The War on Terror --
Foggy Morning in PortTownsend --
The Allusion of Seduction --
Miles's Last Tune Live, August 25th, 1991 --
A Poem of Return: Circa 2008 --
Michael Jackson & The Arc of Love --
Thoughts on A Sunday Morning in Goyave --
Sitting on My Veranda, Facing the Caribbean Sea --
A Veil of Transparent Rain --
Searching for Mangoes: Second Take --
Listening to Blackbirds --
Looking into the Future --
Eye Travel Back into Memory --
A Man Walks in Slow Motion --
Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer (TRIQUARTERLY BOOKS / NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2019) --
Chorus Song of Crossing the Big Salt Water --
The Arrival of Ghost Voices --
Translating the Dreams --
The New Dream of Ghost Voices --
Chorus: African Ghost Spirit Crabs Cross Karukera (Guadeloupe) --
Transition: Guadeloupe (Karukera) to the Gulf of Mexico --
Song of the Hoodoo Spirit Crabs --
The New World: Moving North --
Going Back to Goyave, Guadeloupe: What My Ears Needed to Hear --
Hoodoo Crab Spirits Find New Homes --
Thinking of Fusing Spiritual and Cultural Identities Not Lost --
The Enlightened Awakening --
From Seduction: New Poems, 2013 -- 2018 (TRIQUARTERLY BOOKS / NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2019) --
Ghost Voices Whispering from the Near Past --
Soon to Be Ghost Voices Plunging through the Sky --
Strange Harlem Encounter: A Portrait --
Two New Seven-Elevens in Rhyme --
A Dirge for Michael Brown, Tamir Rice & Trayvon Martin --
Jazz Improvisation as Blueprint for Living --
Eye Want to Go to Bucaramanga, Colombia --
Poem for Lola, Echoing Derek Walcott's "Sixty Years After" --
A Singer's Siren Calling in Marcus Garvey Park: August 24, 2013 --
A Beautiful Woman Putting on Makeup on the Downtown Number 3 New York Subway Train --
High Up in My Imagination --
Sometimes While Sitting on a Bench in Central Park --
Telephone Call from Samo for Miles Davis --
A Remembrance for Prince (1958 -- 2016) --
Romare Bearden's Art between 1964 & 1985 --
Lusting after Mangoes Number 3 --
Passing by La Casa of "Gabo," March 7th, 2014 --
What If Truth Can't Seduce --
Usain Bolt's Final 2016 Olympics --
New Poems: 2019 -- 2020 --
A Poem for An Old Man Walking an Equally Old Dog --
A Tanka for Stanley Moss at Age 95 --
After Reading A Hiroshima Nuclear Bulletin on Yahoo --
All of My Good Old Friends --
Dark Clouds Blooming Up Ahead --
Three Wasps in Juan Dolio, Santo Domingo --
Watching Seagulls Hunt for Fish in Sines, Portugal --
Spring Time Moving Toward Summer: A Crap Shoot --
Flowers Blooming in Central Park --
Gloster, Mississippi: Tankas and Haikus Suite --
The Haitian Drum Hammerers of Juan Dolio, Santa Domingo --
Trying to Find My Way into A Poem in 14 Lines --
Trump's Response on Hearing the News of Covid-19 --
Trump is America's Waterloo --
Trump's Legacy to Black Americans --
There is Always Some Thing --
This One Is for the Black Mamba --
Homage to Elijah Eugene Cummings --
A Poem for Derek Walcott --
Another View from Sines, Portugal Chasing Words in Lines --