Contents -- Gold -- Ego -- A Meditation for My Son -- Sandy Point -- The Madman Raises the Dead -- An Improbable Mecca -- The Peacock Feather in Texas -- The Poet Reclining -- High Sierra -- Water -- I -- Radio Days -- Beginnings -- Lamentations -- White Shoes and Swings -- Hershey's Chocolate -- Mt. Zion Baptist -- The Robe -- The Dogs -- The Appaloosa -- A Woman From Fredericksburg -- Science -- Going to Church with C.W. -- In C.W.'s Closet -- Dialing for Dollars -- A Maxim -- Wood -- LIV -- Sears Roebuck -- American Income -- Fifteen Years -- Baby Boy -- The Lawn -- The Poets -- The Southpaw -- Rambling -- My Father's First Baseball Game -- The Final Trains of August -- The Picnic, an Homage to Civil Rights -- Thelonious -- The Last Jazz Club -- Composition for White Critics Who Think African-American Poets Cannot Work in Contexts of Pure Concerns for Language and Post-Postmodern Twenty-first Century Inventivenessss in Lyric Expressssion Due to Their Self-Limiting Concerns with Language as a Means of Self-Expression and Racial/Cultural Identity in Poetry That Is Ultimately Perhaps Beautiful However Too Trite and Too Folksy to Be Post [//] Theorist Efficacy -- Sam's -- Zombie Dance, Tapppping the Bloodroot -- Fire -- LXIII -- My Heart -- Tuna Fish -- Sub Shop Girl -- Reunions -- PMS -- An Elegy for Lorraine Hansberry -- Friendship, 1994 -- House Training -- Adam and EvEve -- The Model -- Lovers with Flowers -- Self-Portrait -- Solitude -- The Path -- Damo Before the Wall -- Earth -- XXIX -- Borders -- Water Song -- Luxembourg Garden -- New England -- My Father's Geography -- Theme for Intermediate Chinese -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.