Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
Publisher: Black Skylark Singing and Lulu
Published: July 2012
Place of publication: North Carolina, USA
Language: eng
Format: Trade Paperback
Number of pages: 134
Table of contents: title: Table of Contents; title: Introduction, i; title: I. oh glowing bird of midnight love; title: Birth as Prologue (short story) 1; title: The Nomad’s Vision: Ode to a Skylark Dressed in Black 5; title: Magnetic Black Towards Light 8; title: Botanical Gardens #2 9; title: The Seeker 10; title: The Unseen Companion 11; title: The Drawing of the Two Dervishes 12; title: Song of the Black Skylark 13; title: Vampire Song: the Last Bloodfeast 16; title: Road Tune 18; title: And then the Rain God Screamed for Love 19; title: How the Sky God Confessed Love for the Skylark 22; title: II. one river crying and another river laughing; title: Fulton Street/The Series 25; title: Dead River Blues for Langston 26; title: In Regard to a Poet’s Birthday 27; title: DarkMagusMilesAhead#7 28; title: Sweet Brother Beat Bop Daddy K 29; title: When Giants Wave Goodbye 33; title: American Widow: Song for Coretta Scott King 34; title: Like It Is Us 36; title: Eli-Jah 38; title: Every Hour Henceforth 41; title: The Color of Things Unknown 43; title: A Dancer’s Strength and Grace 45; title: All in a Day’s Work 46; title: III. supremely robed in the diamonds of his skin; title: That Poem Is Not My Brother (short story) 49; title: IV. that’s how we ebony skylarks are; title: My Soul Lighting Candles 65; title: Delightful Aesthetics of Divine Dreamers 66; title: Blue Madonna Rising 68; title: Spiral Flower Ascending 69; title: Koo 4 70; title: The View from Where We Love 71; title: Koo 2 73; title: Up on Passion’s Rooftop 74; title: Abstractions of a Passion Divine 76; title: Coffee Morning Rhapsody 78; title: My One Favorite City 80; title: Shadow Candy 81; title: The Golden Art of Dreaming Naked 82; title: Teaching Fire How to Burn 83; title: A Jade Hieroglyphic 84; title: Same-Same 85; title: Scraping Concrete 86; title: Koo 7 87; title: The Coming of Angels 88; title: Koo 6 89; title: A Light of Sacred Whispers 90; title: Gratitudes of a Dozen Roses 92; title: V. where echoes of heaven sighed peace; title: Holiday Letter for a Poet Gone to War 97; title: An Angel for New Orleans 98; title: A Blue Rose for the Sergeant 100; title: Louie the Madman Cries for the World 102; title: Alvin and the Youth 104; title: Tattoo Blues for My Lover the Junkie 106; title: Bright Kiss of Insanity 107; title: The Earth in Rapture, Our Earth 108; title: Page from a Red Scream Burned in Translation 109; title: A Poem that Knew No Better 110; title: Acknowledgments 113; title: About the Author 115