just beginning 11 a height of prairies 12 Billy 14 the lady gardener, Anne Szum 15 the voice of Anne 16 sun 17 the jesus poems 24 the body poems 30 the waters of life 31 what then is free? 32 the rote beads 33 the last day 34 I told you I could drive 35 Ila 36 a memory 37 oh then 38 gone large gone small 39 the dust of just beginning   for it’s love 43 love poems 48 mall 49 body poems II, the black poet   journey man 57 a fearful carnality 58 lost and found 59 my road 60 the first day 63 where are we going next year? 64 to the tax man 65 journey man 66 you dream the poem 67 tough terrain 68 mind riding 69 Blue River   we are the echo 73 kelly’s alley 74 hunting rabbits 75 on the line 76 summer south 77 Cousin Lynda 78 water boy 79 we are the echo 80 this is the day nothing happens 81 body idling over   to escape onto paper 85 into the woods 86 word off 87 victim of story 88 at the end of his fifth whiskey 89 the dead tired poem 90 the anonymous clouds 91 never start from here 92 Samuel Beckett   95 acknowledgement 96 about the author