Grocery shopping with my mother: poems

Poet's note

Side 1. Grocery shopping with my mother

A praise song for Sidney Poitier

Happy

Brotha man

For Miss Shirley LeFlore

For Miguel Algarín

For Cicely Tyson

Call him D-nice

For V (formerly Eve Ensler)

Dear Kobe

letter to bell hooks

Compass: I. For New York City

Hope wanted

Our mothers

The Beatles

Side 2. we them people

Tupac and Biggie

Haiku for Black boys

Enough

Baseball

My father

Janet Jackson never lies

When I found Malcolm X

America

i am magic

Haiku for Vangie

Valentine Haiku

For you

Love

Jamaican love poem

A love sonnet

Bonus tracks. for aunt cathy

Reality check

September 11th

Son2Mother

Self-portrait.