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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Out of “Slave’s Ransom”
Prayer of the Ivory-Handled Knife
Watkins Laundry and Apothecary
Drifter
The Perceiving Self
Washboard Wizard
Old Settlers’ Reunion
A Ship Without a Rudder
The Prayer of Miss Budd
The Last Rose of Summer
Four a.m. in the Woods
Cafeteria Food
Curve-Breaker
The Nervous System of the Beetle
Green-Thumb Boy
Cercospora
A Charmed Life
Called
My People
Odalisque
Chemistry 101
Dawn Walk
From an Alabama Farmer
Coincidence
Bedside Reading
Poultry Husbandry
1905
Clay
Egyptian Blue
The Sweet-Hearts
A Patriarch’s Blessing
The Lace-Maker
Chicken-Talk
The Joy of Sewing
Veil-Raisers
The Year of the Sky-Smear
The New Rooster
How a Dream Dies
Out of the Fire
The Wild Garden
The Dimensions of the Milky Way
Ruellia Noctiflora
Professor Carver’s Bible Class
Goliath
House Ways and Means
Arachis Hypogaea
Lovingly Sons
Friends in the Klan
My Dear Spiritual Boy
“God’s Little Workshop”
Eureka
My Beloved Friend
Driving Dr. Carver
The Penol Cures
Letter to Mrs. Hardwick
Baby Carver
Mineralogy
Last Talk with Jim Hardwick
Moton Field
Author’s Acknowledgments
Publisher’s Acknowledgments
List of Poems
Photography Credits
Notes on First Publication
About the Author
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