Acknowledgments Introduction From The Beautiful Days (1965) John Coltrane: An Impartial Review Nocturne for Eric For White After Reading Tu Fu The Twist '64 Like a Mirror in a Darkroom, '63 Like a Mirror in a House Afire ?The Beautiful Day #5 The Beautiful Day #6 Baltimore Oriole The Joel Blues From Things I Must Have Known (2008) Dear John Coltrane Groovin' Low After Vallejo Things That I Miss from My Youth Things That I Don't Miss from My Youth The Truth About Karen Thursday, Early April Why Do They Call It a Nightmare When a Horse Is What You Need? The City Poet on the Stroll Cloud, As You Pearl 2 When Black People Are How Freedom Works for Small Things Out of Nazareth The First Seventy Toyin's Sound Oriki Origins On Hearing Gonzalo Rubalcaba at Blues Alley Notes on a Poem: Summer (Verano): César Vallejo Redemption Song Another Love Song Astrology Death Poem Uncollected Poems A Home Brew (1960 poem by this title) A Theft of Wishes (1962) There Is in the Atlanta (1968) Did John's Music Kill Him? (1969) The Beautiful Day 10 (revised in 2020 from 1996 version) ?New Poems (2008-2023) The Van Gogh Suite: Van Gogh in England Vincent & the Storm in Ramsgate What They Said About Van Gogh In Dordrecht Van Gogh in The Black Country Vincent in Love 1: Kee Vos Vincent in Love 2: Sien Hoornik Van Gogh in Arles Self Portrait, 1887 Vincent Writes to Theo from Grave to Grave Skunder Between the Night & Its Music The Congo God Teaches J.S. Bach a Dance In Lieu of Nightingales In This Peculiar Light Nostalgia For the Light The Migration Suite: Ida Mae, Van Fleet, Mississippi, 1928 Jim Crow Leavin' Kansas City Blues, 1934: Coleman (Bean) Hawkins Hung Up Kansas City Blues 1934, Big Joe Turner Harlem, Minton's Playhouse Ink Spots Jeff's Poems, 3: The Sermon Jeff's Poems, 4 How Freedom Works for Small Things Chandi Dreams of Butterflies Caeli Emergent Muscle Beach The Women I Have Not Slept With The Old Fart's Lament The Last of My Time Makes a City A Home Brew (recast) Interlude Interlude 2: The Storm Interlude 3: Sunset Summer Requiem A Winter Confession Evening Again.