Say licked clean at birth. Say …
Yusef Komunyakaa
I can’t touch you. …
Renato, a midday sun shines straight …
Morning snow made the dogwood …
I was here before the blackamoors …
my story is …
We tied branches to our helmets. …
The city at 3 a.m. is an ungodly mask …
They work fingers to bone & borrow …
When I was a boy, he says, the sky began burning, …
I’ve come to this one grassy hill …
My black face fades, …
Somebody go & ask Biggie to orate …
No, sweetheart, I said courtly love. …
Zeus always introduces himself …
For Derek Walcott …
When deeds splay before us …
If I am not Ulysses, I am …
The victorious army marches into the city, …
They fired a bullet into the head …
Ito ran to a window. He danced. …
Drunken laughter escapes …
You came by woven reed boats …
My thumb & index finger …
Did a big brain raise us …
Her eyelids were painted blue. …
We piled planks, sheets of tin, …
Forgive me, soldier. …
Beauty, I’ve seen you …
When the trees were guilty, hugged up …
In the day’s mirror …
The river stones are listening …
Fast breaks. Lay ups. With Mercury's …
If you're one of seven …
Ghost sun half …
Her red dress & hat …
Housed in a boom of blubber …
They came as Congo, Guinea, & Angola, …
Daddy’s blue-gray Chevy pickup …
I went into the forest searching …
Someone says Tristan …
Using the gun mounts …
The sun slides down behind brick dust, …
He danced with tall grass …
In a cerulean ruckus …
When the plowblade struck …