Editorial Note by Marguerite Harrold Introduction by Gabeba Baderoon From Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa (1998) Africa I I Am Not Dekuah Tugbakeh, A Song The Storm Child Soldier Finding My Family War Children Warrior Have You Been Felled? Oh Rivers: Nov. 7, 1995 What Dirge II Strange Lovers Heritage Big Ma Knowing To: Bai Jabbeh In Memory of Cousin Hazel: A Dirge African Death Take Me Way Back Monrovia Women Nyanken Hne They Say I''m Still Thinking. Outside Child This Rooster Will Come Home to Roost III One Of These Days Minority My Wife Brings Home Another Husband Surrender When I Get to Heaven I Smell Home In This House To Michigan Homecoming Envoi The Visiting Artist From Becoming Ebony (2003) I My Birth at the Doorpost I Used to Own This Town Get Out of Here, Boys! Requiem for Auntie Today Is Already Too Much For Marie Antoinette II In the Beginning This Is What I Tell My Daughter War Baby The Moon Poem They Want to Rise Up Elegy to West Point Fisherman III Coming Home to Iyeeh A Dirge for Charles Taylor Around the Mountains Elegy for Dessie Transfiguration When I Meet Moses For Robert Frost The Corrupt Shall Rise Incorruptible We''ve Done It All The World in Long Lines All the Soft Things of Earth Becoming Ebony IV For My Husband Wandering Child Small Desires When I Rise to Look the Sunshine in Its Bare Eye A Poem for My Father In This Town My Neighbors'' Dogs A Letter to My Brother Coming to America My New Insurance Plan These Are the Reasons the Living Live M-T, Turning Thirteen Winter Street A Snowwoman in Her Dying Hour I Now Wander I Am Acquainted with Waiting From The River Is Rising (2007) To Set Everything Right I. Those Who Survived Lamentation After Fourteen Years This Hill Will Get You There At Galilee The River Is Rising In Case of Water Landing After Deer Season Bringing Closure One of These Days, We Should Give Her a Medal In Michigan Memories Shakespeare 550 Four Tibetan Monks on a Wall at the Arts Council Tomorrow We Will Go Out into the Streets Blessed Are the Sinful for They Shall See God Taking Possession At Point Loma II. Ruined City Remembering Sodom In the Ruined City: A Poem for Monrovia Searching for Margaret City What the Land Carver Said from the Sky Until the Plane Drops Retriever All Dirges Have Ceased An Elegy for the St. Peter''s Church Massacred The Morning After: An Elegy Ceasefire Christmas--1990 For Kwame Nkrumah If the World Ceases to Be Now Something Death Cannot Know Under the Rubble III. Umbilical Cords Coming Home: For Besie-Nyesuah When My Daughter Tells Me She Has a Boyfriend Monrovia Revisited August 11, 2003 Untitled Pieces at the Corner Bar In a Moment When the World Stops After the Memorial Leaving: A Poem for Gee While I Wait for the War IV. Woman In the Making of a Woman Taboo A Winding Trail Stories Ruined Trails Stranger Woman Mammie Wata The Women in My Family For Ma Nmano Jabbeh: A Dirge To a Mother, After Passing For the Lucky Wife Women at the Tomb Poem Written from a Single Snapshot Broken World From Where the Road Turns (2010) Prelude: Biography When the Wanderers Come Home I.

Love Songs Love Song Before the Sun Goes Down For My Husband after So Many Years Love Song Before the War Ends Love Song When Musu Answers Her Lover Cheedi, My Bride: A Grebo Man Laments Each Waking Moment So This is Where the Roads Merge A Memorial for Herb Scott: One Year Later If I Could Write a Poem about Love Love Song for the Lost Moments of Youth Woman Praying A Lover, Lost at Sea Love Songs of Taboos One Day Everyone Should Die on a Friday II. Taboos In the Beginning II Making Happy People Last Night in My Dream My Mother Came to Visit Me Last Night Recollections Ghosts Don''t Go Away Just Like That Reburial: To Lament of Drums The Resurrection of the Ancestors Where the Road Turned A Poem Before You Die My Auntie''s Woman-Lappa Husband Step Lightly, God These Are the Ways of Our People Come, the Warrior is No More III. Wanderings We Departed Our Homelands and We Came Where the Road Turns Been Wandering Too Long: A Song Monrovia 2008 Mystery For My Infant Daughter Soon After Birth Deh Kon Tee Facebook For the Wandering Child Times Gone I Like Your Wars Funeral Rehearsal At My Backyard There''s Another New Orleans The Sea Has No Bridge IV. Tomorrow The People Walking in Darkness How Good the World Is Medellin, 2007 What Does It Feel Like? There''s Nothing You Can Do What Is All this Fuss About? Coming Home To Be a Woman There Will Come Time It Is Too Late Now Some Things You Never Stop Looking For After So Long, We No Longer Send Photos I Came to Your Funeral Today: A Dirge The Queen of Sheba and the Wisdom of Solomon Inequality in Hell Waiting The Blessing From When the Wanderers Come Home (2016) Book I. Coming Home So I Stand Here What Took Us to War Erecting Stones: January 2013 Looters of War Coming Home: A Poem for MT Send Me Some Black Clothes I Need Two Bodies The Creation And You Tell Me This Is a Funeral? Loss If You Have Never Been Married Becoming Ghost The Killed Ones The Cities We Lost A City of Ghosts July Rain I Go Home Song for Mariam Makeba When Monrovia Rises This Is the Real Leaving Book II. Colliding Worlds In My Dream Sometimes, I Close My Eyes Sandy: Love Song for the Hurricane Woman Tsunami: A Song for an Unknown Young Man For My Children, Growing Up in America You Wouldn''t Let Me Adopt My Dog: A Poem for Ade-Juah When I Grow Up The Inequality of Dogs Medellin from My Hotel Room Balcony Morocco, on the Way to London To Libya: February 2011 Sometimes I Wonder The Deer on My Lawn Leaves Are Leaving Us Again Book III. World (Un)/Breakable I Want to Be the Woman This Morning When I Was a Girl I''m Afraid of Emptiness Silence I Want Everything Fina.