Contents
Cameos
July, 1925—Night—Birth—Lake Erie Skyline, 1930—Depression Years—Homework—Graduation, Grammar School—Painting the Town—Easter Sunday, 1940— Nightwatch. The Son.
Freedom: Bird’s-Eye View
Singsong
I Cut My Finger Once on Purpose
Parlor
The First Book
Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967
Freedom: Bird’s-Eye View
Testimonial
Dawn Revisited
Black on a Saturday Night
My Mother Enters the Work Force
Black on a Saturday Night
The Musician Talks about “Process”
Sunday
The Camel Comes to Us from the Barbarians
The Venus of Willendorf
Incarnation in Phoenix
Revenant
Best Western Motor Lodge, AAA Approved
Revenant
On Veronica
There Came a Soul
The Peach Orchard
Against Repose
Against Self-Pity
Götterdämmerung
Ghost Walk
Lady Freedom Among Us
For Sophie, Who’ll Be in First Grade in the Year 2000
On the Bus with Rosa Parks
Sit Back, Relax
“The situation is intolerable”
Freedom Ride
Climbing In
Claudette Colvin Goes to Work
The Enactment
Rosa
QE2. Transatlantic Crossing. Third Day.
In the Lobby of the Warner Theatre, Washington, D.C.
The Pond, Porch-View: Six P.M., Early Spring
Notes
Acknowledgments