On the bus with Rosa Parks: poems

July, 1925

Night

Birth

Lake Erie skyline, 1930

Depression years

Homework

Graduation, grammar school

Painting the town

Easter Sunday, 1940

Nightwatch. The son

Singsong

I cut my finger once on purpose

Parlor

The first book

Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967

Freedom: bird's-eye view

Testimonial

Dawn revisited

My mother enters the work force

Black on a Saturday night

The musician talks about "process"

Sunday

The camel comes to us from the barbarians

The Venus of Willendorf

Incarnation in Phoenix

Best Western Motor Lodge, AAA approved

Revenant

On Veronica

There came a soul

The peach orchard

Against repose

Against self-pity

G©œtterd©Þmmerung

Ghost walk

Lady Freedom among us

For Sophie, who'll be in first grade in the year 2000

Sit back, relax

"The situation is intolerable"

Freedom ride

Climbing in

Claudette Colvin goes to work

The enactment

Rosa

QE2. Transatlantic crossing. Third Day.

In the lobby of the Warner Theatre, Washington, D.C.

The pond, porch-view: six P.M., early spring