Table of Contents
Make Me Rain 1
No Pancakes Please 2
A Query 4
You Talk about Rape 5
Vote 8
At the Important End 10
And So It Comes to This 12
Quiet 14
America 16
Big Sisters 17
Poem 18
Everything but the Water 20
I Am Your Sweatshirt 21
Life on Mars 23
No I.D. Required 25
Song of Myself 26
Some Call It Love 27
The Blues 28
Love in All Colors 30
Unloved 32
1619 Jamestown (but not only) 34
In the Evening 36
For Pat Moss 37
After the Day 38
Malcolm X and the Guardian 39
Lemonade Grows from Soil, Too 40
For Therrell Smith 42
Leaves 43
One-Three; Two-Three; Three-Ones 44
Love 45
A Good Job 47
The 10th Planet 49
In Silence 50
Winter Homes 51
But Some of Us Stayed 52
Happy Mother's Day 54
We Write 55
Train Rides Matter 59
Space Inside Mostly but Out 61
Changes 65
I Come from Athletes 67
Transitions 70
Our Own Path 71
De-Planeing 73
Seeds 74
Spring 76
When the Music Stopped 78
We Knew 79
6 May 2018 Approximately 9:00 P.M. or 10:30 P.M. 80
Raise Your Hand 82
The First Students of Color at Virginia Tech 84
Rainy Days 86
Submission for the Ehony Commemorative Edition on Barack Obama 87
Ntozake Shange 88
The Gift of Nurses 89
When I Could No Longer 90
I'm Just a Poet 91
Ladysitting with Grandmother 92
Laughter 93
Quilts 94
Sister Althea 96
A Short Bio of Nikki Giovanni
Ferguson: The Musical 98
Yes 101
Vegetable Soup 102
Cool 104
Physics 105
It's Just Love 107
The Circle 109
The Counting Song 110
A Bench 112
Biography 114
And Yeah … This Is a Love Poem 116
Tupac 121