From the Book - Centenary ed.
Words in the mourning time
The night-blooming cereus
Remembering Hayden / Reginald Dwayne Betts.
A ballad of remembrance (1962), (1966): The diver
Belsen, day of liberation
The ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield
Night, death, Mississippi
"An inference of Mexico": Day of the Dead ; Mountains ; Veracruz ; Idol ; Sub specie aeternitatis ; Market ; Kid ; La corrida
Homage to the empress of the blues
"Incense of the lucky virgin"
Mourning poem for the queen of Sunday
"Summertime and the living..."
"From the corpse woodpiles, from the ashes"
Baháu'lláh in the garden of Ridwan
O Daedalus, fly away home
Words in the mourning time (1970): Sphinx
"'Mystery boy' looks for kin in Nashville
Aunt Jemima of the ocean waves
Kodachromes of the island
Unidentified flying object
Words in the mourning time
The night-blooming cereus (1972): Richard Hunt's "Arachne"
The night-blooming cereus
"Dance the Orange" Traveling through fog.
Angle of ascent (1975): Beginnings
Free Fantasia : tiger flowers
Two Egyptian portait masks: Nefert-iti ; Akhenaten
American journal (1978), (1982): A letter from Phillis Wheatley
Elegies for Paradise Valley
Afterword / Arnold Rampersad