Temperance Still …
Marilyn Nelson
Arachis Hypogaea may have been …
In his careful welter of dried leaves and seeds, …
Five daughters, in the slant light on the porch, …
My master/father sent me up from South …
Long fing- ers, how …
Hybridization, cross-breeding, evolution: …
Our love still young, our marriage new, …
It was like soul-kissing, the way the words …
Baptized 1741 …
I have no answer to the blank inequity …
The United Negro Improvement Association, …
Which reminds me of another knock-on-wood …
Ostrich and Lark started each morning together …
A collective family myth …
A doll was forgotten in a bedroom …
It's the ragged source of memory, …
Samuel Freeman, emancipated …
Musical instruments sleep in the dark …
Here lies interred beneath this mouldering sod …
Today in America people were bought and sold: …