by Langston Hughes I worked for a woman， She wasn't mean But she had a twelve-room House to clean. Had to get breakfast， Dinner， and supper， too T...
by Langston Hughes You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE？ O.K.ed it when？ My goodness， Central That was then！ I'm mad and disgusted With that Negro now. ...
by Mary Leader How the tenor warbles in April！ He thrushes， he nightingales， 0 he's a lark. He cuts the cinquefoil air into snippets With his love...
by Ko Un Over the steep， panting hills where I rest my heart. I like the simple homeliness of the bitch and her puppies. For how many centuries have s...
by Naomi Shihab Nye For the first time， on the road north of Tampico， I felt the life sliding out of me， a drum in the desert， harder and harder to he...
by Marilyn Nelson I have no answer to the blank inequity of a four-year-old dying of cancer. I saw her on TV and wept with my mouth full of meatloaf. ...
by Nellie Wong Mama， come back. Why did you leave now that I am learning you？ The landlady next door how she apologizes for my rough brown skin to her...
by Jaime Manrique Against a topaz sky and huge windows starry with delirious heartsease and sensual red cayenne； the sweet twilight breeze fragrant wi...
by Rebecca Wolff He died before we could honor him correctly. Candied impulse through the brain. Your will subverted that's a tree， a treatment，a ...
by Robert Lowell Tamed by Miltown， we lie on Mother's bed； the rising sun in war paint dyes us red； in broad daylight her gilded bed-posts shine， ...