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 --

Miss 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 --

Continue --

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.