The Yellow House on the Corner: PoemsThis Life -- The Bird Frau -- Robert Schumann, Or: Musical Genius Begins with Afflication -- Happenstance -- Small Town -- The Snow King -- Sightseeing -- Upon Meeting Don L. Lee In a Dream -- "Teach Us to Number Our Days"--Nigger Song: An Odyssey -- Five Elephants -- Geometry -- Champagne -- Night Watch -- The Secret Garden -- A Suite for Augustus -- 1963 -- D.C. -- Planning the Perfect Evening -- Augustus Observes the Sunset -- Wake -- Back -- Belinda's Petition -- The House Slave -- David Walker (1785-1830) -- The Abduction -- The Transport of Slaves From Maryland to Mississippi -- Pamela -- Someone's Blood -- Cholera -- The Slave's Critique of Pratical Reason -- Kentucky -- Adolescence-I -- Adolescence-II -- Adolescence-III -- The Boast -- The Kadvana Kumbis Devise a Way to Marry for Love -- Spy -- First Kiss -- Then Came Flowers -- Pearls -- Nexus -- Notes from a Tunisian Journal - The Sahara Bus Trip -- For Kazuko -- Beauty and the Beast -- His Shirt -- Great Uncle Beefheart -- The Son -- Corduroy Road -- O. |
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27 Augustus Observes Adolescence-I Adolescence-II Alan Broughton apron arms backyard Begins with Affliction Belinda's Petition Bird Frau blue breasts breath broken brontosaurus Cholera coat Corduroy Road Corner dark darkened David Walker dreams dust eyes face Five Elephants floated flowers goodbye graveyard green H. L. Van Brunt heart Jay Meek Kadava Kumbis Devise Kazuko Kentucky light lips Maryland to Mississippi Massa Meeting Don milliemes moon Musical Genius Begins nigger night Nigger Song Night Watch Number Our Days Observes the Sunset Odyssey orange pale Planning the Perfect Pocketed praying mantis ragged Rita Dove Robert Schumann Sahara Bus Trip salt Secret Garden shadows Shirt shivering skin Slave's Critique Slaves From Maryland smiled Snow King Someone's Blood spilled stars Stephen Dunn strip Suite for Augustus tears tongue Transport of Slaves trees Tunisian Journal Uncle Beefheart waiting walk weep whisper wind yeah Yellow House