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Sonnets

Poems and Essays:

2012

A Blizzard Blues

A Hip-Hop Sonnet

Affinity with Orwell

After the Mammogram

Anna Nicole’s Dream

Autumnal

Black Schist

Constellations

Crossings

Deep in These Woods

Detective Lennie Briscoe: This is His Story

Down the Aisle

Failed Sonnet After the Verdict

For My Beloved

For My Cross-Dressing Friends

From Sonnets from E—

Grief

Guilford Courthouse

Harlem

How the Past Appeared

Hunted

i come to the city

Impossible Bottle

Interrupted transmissions

Interview with Danish Kroner

Introduction to the Sonnet Issue

La Petite Amie

Lake Rosseau, Canada

Lately

Lives Like Otters, Seen by Angels

Love Among the Ruins

Love’s Testament

Metal Anniversary

Minus the Body

Misty Friday Morning

moneymaker

Mother Night

Now Let the City Slumber

Old Coat

Old Egg

Scars of Last Year’s Leaves

Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery, Caddo Parish

Slow Through the Dark

Sonnet

Sonnet 57

Sonnet for a Namesake

Sonnet for This Week’s Terror Alert

Sonnet on an Old Comic Strip

Subject to Change

Tea in the Late Afternoon

Tercentenary of the Landing of Slaves at Jamestown

The Bee

The Correction

The Curse

The Field at Potts Camp

The Joke

The Lyrebird

Three Minutes Apart

To John Brown

To My Laundress

To the Dunbar High School

Two Sonnets

Two Sonnets

Two Sonnets

Two Sonnets

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