- Formatted Contents Note:
- The homeplace: The external landscape -- Hesitation of Wanda Moore -- Barking -- In memory of my grandmother -- Praisesong: from son to mother -- Pathway: from son to father -- How it was -- Poem of the moon -- A wind poem -- Flounders -- Sun poem -- A young peacock -- Goddess -- Poem -- Piney Ridge in Autumn -- Cousin Jack -- To my daughter -- Heat: Heat -- Dream poem -- Ancestor song -- While in the sun -- The way of feet in the heat -- A poem of the senses -- Black woman -- Telling of tales -- Consider from the roadside -- Two sides of the road -- Summer on the farm -- The Easter stroll -- Summer's end -- In late morning -- Summer work -- A view in silverdale -- The pants of the passer-by -- Cottonpickers -- Postcard to an ecologist -- On summer days -- Joining twilight -- A walk to the orchard -- To abandon a mockingbird -- Breaking ground: Breaking ground: Jacksonville, North Carolina -- The migrants -- From the field -- Again -- Farm work -- Summer poem -- Breakfast, then chores -- Entrance -- Miss Julia Mae -- Indian girl -- Onslow County, North Carolina -- Ars poetica -- East Carolina rain -- Forever home.
