From Embryo (BARLENMIR HOUSE, 1972) -- Embryo -- Rhythms -- Come Sing a Song -- Profilin, A Rap/Poem -- Midtown Traffic -- Chicago -- Blood Rivers -- The Syntax of the Mind Grips -- Weather Report in Lincoln Nebraska 2/8/71 -- White Weekend -- Woke Up Crying the Blues -- In Texas Grass -- Three for the Biafran War -- Blood-Rivers -- Embryo -- In Seventy-five Syllables -- In the Manner of Rabearivello -- Dream Poem/Song -- Rain/Time -- Dream/Dance -- 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 -- I -- Up Sun South of Alaska -- These Crossings, These Words -- New York City Beggar -- After Hearing A Radio Announcement: A Comment on Some Conditions -- Steel Poles Give Back No Sweat -- Snow & Ice -- A Surrealistic Poem to Everyone & No One in Particular -- From Richmond College, Postmarked -- Manhattan -- II -- Legon, Ghana, After Dark -- Ghanaian Song-Image -- Igbobi, Nigerian Night -- Memory -- Out Here Where -- III -- It Is Not -- In A Silence of Bells -- In Memory of Bunchy Carter -- The Other Night -- Flying Kites -- Transformation -- Fireflies -- IV -- The Day Duke Raised: May 24th, 1984 -- Four, and More -- Snake-Back Solo -- V -- Poem for Skunder Boghossian, Painter -- Collage -- My Poems Have Holes Sewn into Them -- From Skulls along the River (L. REED BOOKS, 1984) -- I -- 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 -- River Rhythm Town -- II -- Whose Death Is This Walking towards Me Now -- Ode to John Coltrane -- The Sky Empties Down Ice -- Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village, 1978 -- Eighth Avenue Poem -- Poem for Lady Day & Dinah Washington -- Image -- Riff -- III -- Impressions 8 -- Impressions 12 -- Impressions 15 -- Just Cruisin & Writin -- V -- Harlem Late Night Lyric -- The Day Strides There on the Wind -- V -- Memos & Buttons -- Las Cruces, New Mexico -- It All Boils Down -- 116th Street & Park Avenue -- Leon Thomas at the Tin Palace -- VI -- Untitled 3 -- Eye Throw My Rope Tongue into the Sky -- A Thought for You, Margaret -- A Poem for Ojenke & K. Curtis Lyle -- Southern Lyric; Ritual -- Passing on the Legacy -- New York City Stream Poem -- At the End -- From Weather Reports: New Poems, 1984 -- 1990 (HARLEM RIVER PRESS / WRITERS AND READERS, 1991) -- Perennial Ritual -- Boomerang: A Blatantly Political Poem -- Les Cayes, Haiti & 3 Religions on Parade: 1984 -- In Memoriam -- Avalanche Aftermath -- Porter, at 18 Months -- Change -- Eye Walk -- 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 -- I -- Watch Out for Sound Bites & Spin Doctors -- A Response to All You "Angry White Males" -- Eye Change Dreams -- Slippin' & Slidin' Over Syllables for Fun -- A Poem for "Magic" -- And Syllables Grow Wings There -- One for Charlie Mingus -- Avalanche -- II -- Poem for Friends -- "Minnesota Nice" -- Let's Say You Are Who -- The Old People Speak of Death -- Conjuring Against Alien Spirits -- The Absoluteness of Seconds -- For Malcolm, Who Walks in the Eyes of Our Children -- Poem for My Father -- Male Springtime Ritual -- III -- Untitled -- San Juan Island Image -- La Jolla -- The Flip Side of Time -- Birth Form: Tercetina -- The View from Skates in Berkeley -- From Choruses (COFFEE HOUSE PRESS, 1999) -- I -- Song -- Sestina for 39 Silent Angels -- Forty-one Seconds on a Sunday in June, in Salt Lake City, Utah -- II -- Gray Day in January in La Jolla -- Mother -- Jerez de la Franterea -- III -- The Point Loma Series of Haikus & Tankas -- Your Lover's Eyes Speak -- IV -- Bells -- V -- Choruses -- 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 -- Reconfigurations -- Pulse & Breathe -- What the Poetic Line Holds -- One Summer View; in Port Townsend, Washington -- Fast Lane -- Shades of Blue for a Blue Bridge -- Transcircularities -- From The Architecture of Language (COFFEE HOUSE PRESS, 2006) -- I -- Haiku Scenes -- II -- Versace -- III -- The Hours Fly Quick -- Three Sevens: 21 Lines Hoping for Change -- Eye Am Forever Looking for Shadows -- IV -- Memory, as A Circle: For the Love Eye Lost in Hurricane Audrey -- Diva -- Lucille -- The Shot -- For Richard Pryor: 1940 -- 2005 -- V -- Connections -- In Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe -- A Woman in the Water --

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 -- VI -- What Is It Poetry Seeks -- Switchin' in the Kitchen -- VII -- The Architecture of Language -- From Errancities (COFFEE HOUSE PRESS, 2012) -- I -- An Art of Lost Faith -- Las Cruces, New Mexico Revisited -- Where Have They All Gone -- II -- After Seeing An Image in Ashland, Oregon -- On A Sunday -- Mix-y-uppy Memory -- A Hard Quick Rainstorm in Manhattan -- Sounds of New York City -- 2002 Manhattan Snapshot: The War on Terror -- A Few Questions Posed -- Foggy Morning in PortTownsend -- The Allusion of Seduction -- III -- Praise Song for Sekou -- Taps for Freddie -- Miles's Last Tune Live, August 25th, 1991 -- A Poem of Return: Circa 2008 -- IV -- Michael Jackson & The Arc of Love -- V -- Thoughts on A Sunday Morning in Goyave -- Goyave Night Scene -- Sitting on My Veranda, Facing the Caribbean Sea -- A Veil of Transparent Rain -- Haiti Haiku -- Earthquake: Haiti -- Hurricanes -- Lusting after Mangoes -- Searching for Mangoes: Second Take -- Listening to Blackbirds -- Haiku Song -- A Vision -- VI -- Seven Elevens -- VII -- Errancities -- Just Think About It -- Looking into the Future -- Eye Travel Back into Memory -- Untitled Dreamscape -- A Man Walks in Slow Motion -- Connections #2 -- Sentences -- Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer (TRIQUARTERLY BOOKS / NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2019) -- I -- Chorus Song of Crossing the Big Salt Water -- II -- First Take -- III -- The Arrival of Ghost Voices -- IV -- Translating the Dreams -- V -- The New Dream of Ghost Voices -- VI -- Chorus: African Ghost Spirit Crabs Cross Karukera (Guadeloupe) -- VII -- Transition: Guadeloupe (Karukera) to the Gulf of Mexico -- VIII -- Song of the Hoodoo Spirit Crabs -- IX -- The New World: Moving North -- X -- Going Back to Goyave, Guadeloupe: What My Ears Needed to Hear -- XI -- Hoodoo Crab Spirits Find New Homes -- XII -- Thinking of Fusing Spiritual and Cultural Identities Not Lost -- XIII -- The Enlightened Awakening -- From Seduction: New Poems, 2013 -- 2018 (TRIQUARTERLY BOOKS / NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2019) -- I -- Ghost Voices Whispering from the Near Past -- Catching Shadows -- Soon to Be Ghost Voices Plunging through the Sky -- Ghost Waves -- Mercy -- Strange Incidents -- Strange Harlem Encounter: A Portrait -- High Noon Shadow -- Two New Seven-Elevens in Rhyme -- Question -- A Dirge for Michael Brown, Tamir Rice & Trayvon Martin -- II -- Fragment -- Jazz Improvisation as Blueprint for Living -- Eye Want to Go to Bucaramanga, Colombia -- III -- Poem for Poets House -- 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 -- Death Always Comes -- A Remembrance for Prince (1958 -- 2016) -- Romare Bearden's Art between 1964 & 1985 -- Poem for Jack Whitten -- Lusting after Mangoes Number 3 -- Lessons in Seduction -- Passing by La Casa of "Gabo," March 7th, 2014 -- Blue Mandala -- What If Truth Can't Seduce -- A Double Rainbow Arch -- Seduction -- Usain Bolt's Final 2016 Olympics -- Hints of Seduction -- Each of Us Here -- Lyric Still Life -- New Poems: 2019 -- 2020 -- Duende -- Searching -- A Poem for An Old Man Walking an Equally Old Dog -- A Tanka for Stanley Moss at Age 95 -- A Wandering 7 -- 11 -- After Reading A Hiroshima Nuclear Bulletin on Yahoo -- All of My Good Old Friends -- Coronavirus Redial -- Dark Clouds Blooming Up Ahead -- Blood -- Hurricane Maria -- Three Wasps in Juan Dolio, Santo Domingo -- Sonic Fireflies -- Watching Seagulls Hunt for Fish in Sines, Portugal -- Spring Time Moving Toward Summer: A Crap Shoot -- Watts 1965 -- Flowers Blooming in Central Park -- A Haiku and A Tanka -- 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 -- Think of It -- Time -- Some Think -- Nancy Pelosi -- Homage to Elijah Eugene Cummings -- For Hugh -- Space Travels -- A Poem for Derek Walcott -- Another View from Sines, Portugal Chasing Words in Lines -- Picking a Dandelion.