Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa
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My Father's Love Letters
... He would beg, Promising to never beat her ...
Prisoners
... marionettes hooked to strings of light ...
Potions
... They'd walk outOf the woods or drive in from cities, ...
Poetics
... confetti. The sack of bones in the magnolia, ...
Infidelity
... Europa Pass from their dreams into his ...
Lime
... & not far behind tarries a throng of women ...
South Carolina Morning
... This is paradise made of pigment ...
Facing It
... freed slaves equal protection under the law by vetoing the Civil Rights Bill and the Freedman&rsquo ...
Memory of the Murdered Professors at the Jagiellonian
... After Hasior They fired a bullet into the head ...
Togetherness
... s in LA when Lana Turner would say, ...
Omens
... royal wig. He was the masked fool unmasking the emperor ...
Toys in a Field
... pulling themselves through, ...
Snow Tiger
... nerves. If cornered in your head by cries from a cave ...
Reflections
... s mirror you see a tall black man ...
Please
... Henry, you went dancing on a red string ...
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