- 1. On New Year's Eve
we make midnight a maquette of the year:
frostlight glinting off snow to solemnize
the vows we offer to ourselves in near
silence: the competition shimmerwise
...
- 2. Waiting On The Mayflower
i. august 1619
arrived in a boat, named
and unnamed, twenty, pirated
...
- 3. From The Lost Letters Of Frederick Douglass
Dear Daughter,
Can you be fifty-three this
month? I still look for you to peek around
my door as if you'd discovered a toy
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- 4. A Sonnet For Stanley Tookie Williams
celebrations: what a star
announcedâ??a birthâ??and then a chance to fold
a year away, pull one fresh from the drawer,
...
- 5. A Background In Music
and not just twangy tunes that rhyme southern drawls
with guitar strings, though it's true i knew charlie pride
before charlie parker, but music, music, music, broadway
numbers (one! . . .) broadcast over speakers in the park,
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