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Digging

In the rusty pages of Gray’s Anatomyin witchcraft and chewing gumon sundaysI have sought you in the rings around oak treeson each of the twelve moons of Jupiteron Harlem streetspeeping up at the secrets pregnant women carrylike a swollen threatbeneath…

Brother Alvin

In the seat that we shared in the second gradethere was always a space between usleft for our guardian angels.We had made it out of the brownies togetherbecause you knew your numbersand could find the right pageswhile I could read…

A Song for Many Movements

Nobody wants to die on the waycaught between ghosts of whitenessand the real waternone of us wanted to leaveour boneson the way to salvationthree planets to the lefta century of light years agoour spices are separate and particularbut our skins…

Portrait

Strong womenknow the tasteof their own hatredI must always bebuilding nestsin a windy placeI want the safety of oblique numbersthat do not include mea beautiful womanwith ugly momentssecret and patientas the amused and ponderous elephantscatering to Hannibal’s ambitionas they swayed…

In Margaret’s Garden

When I first saw you blooming the color was nowprotests sprang from your rapid handslike a second set of fingersyou were learning to usethe betrayal of othersin place of your own painand your mouth was smilingoff-centerin the total confusion. I…

To Martha: A New Year

As you search over this yearwith eyes your heart hassharpenedremember longing. I do not know your space nowI only seek a woman whom I lovetrapped thereby accident.but places do not changeso muchas what we seek in themand faith will servealong…

Coping

It has rained for five daysrunningthe world isa round puddleof sunless waterwhere small islandsare only beginningto copea young boyin my gardenis bailing out waterfrom his flower patchwhen I ask him whyhe tells meyoung seeds that have not seen sunforgetand drown…

Chorus

Sunmake me whole againto lovethe shattered truths of mespilling out like dragon’s teeththrough the hot liesof those who say they lovemewhen I am doneeach shard will spring upcomplete and armedlike a warrior womanhot to be dealt withslipping through alleywaysof musical…

Eulogy for Alvin Frost

I Black men bleeding to death inside themselvesinside their fine strong bodiesinside their stomachsinside their headsa holeas large as a dum-dum bulleteaten away from the insidedeath at 37. Windows are holes to let in the lightin Newark airport at dawn…

Walking Our Boundaries

This first bright day has brokenthe back of winter.We rise from warto walk across the eartharound our houseboth stunned that sun can shine so brightlyafter all our painCautiously we inspect our joint holding.A part of last year’s garden still standsbrackenone…