The complete poetry

Just give me a cool drink of water 'fore I diiie pt. I. Where love is a scream of anguish They went home The gamut A Zorro man To a man Late October No loser, no weeper When you come to me Remembering In a time Tears The detached To a husband Accident Let's majeste After The mothering blackness On diverse deviations Mourning grace How can I lie to you Sounds like pearls pt. II. Just before the world ends When I think about myself On a bright day, next week Letter to an aspiring junkie Mis Scarlett, Mr Rhett and other latter-day saints Times-Square-shoeshine-composition Faces To a freedom fighter Riot : 60's We saw beyond our seeming Black ode No no no no - My guilt The calling of names On working White liberals Sepia fashion show The thirteens (Black) The thirteens (White) Harlem hopscotch

Oh pray my wings are gonna fit me well pt. I. Pickin em up and layin em down Here's to adhering On reaching forty The telephone pt. II. Passing time Now long ago Greyday Poor girl Come, and be my baby Senses of insecurity Alone Communication I Communication II Wonder A conceit pt. III. Request Africa America For us, who dare not dare Lord, in my heart Artful pose pt. IV. The couple The pusher Chicken-Licken pt. V. I almost remember Prisoner Woman me John J. Southeast Arkanasia Song for the old ones Child dead in old seas Take time out Elegy Reverses Little girl speakings This winter day

And still I rise pt. I. Touch me, life, not softly A kind of love, some say Country lover Remembrance Where we belong, a duet Phenomenal woman Men Refusal Just for a time pt. II. Traveling Junkie monkey reel The lesson California prodigal My Arkansas Through the inner city to the suburbs Lady luncheon club Momma welfare roll The singer will not sing Willie To beat the child was bad enough Woman work One more round The traveler Kin The memory pt. III. And still I rise Still I rise Ain't that bad? Life doesn't frighten me Bump d'bump On aging In retrospect Just like Job Call letters : Mrs. V.B. Thank you, Lord

Shaker, why don't you sing? .Awaking in New York A good woman feeling bad The health-food diner A Georgia song Unmeasured tempo Amoebaean for Daddy Recovery Impeccable conception Caged bird Avec merci, Mother Arrival A plagued journey Starvation Contemporary announcement Prelude to a parting Martial choreograph To a suitor Insomniac Weekend glory The lie Prescience Family affairs Changes Brief innocence The last decision Slave coffee Shaker, why don't you sing? My life has turned to blue

I shall not be moved Worker's song Human family Man bigot Old folks laugh Is love Forgive Insignificant Love letter Equality Coleridge Jackson Why are they happy people? Son to mother Known to Eve and me These yet to be United States Me and my work Changing Born that way Televised Nothing much Glory falls London Savior Many and more The new house Our grandmothers Preacher, don't send me Fightin' was natural Loss of love Seven women's blessed assurance In my Missouri They ask why When great trees fall

On the pulse of morning

Celebrations

A brave and startling truth

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Sons and daughters

A Black woman speaks to Black manhood

Amazing peace

Mother : a cradle to hold me

In and out of time

Ben Lear's bar mitzvah

Vigil

Prayer

Amazement awaits

His day is done.