- Mexico rises into view like a textbook description of a dead civilization;
from the Poem Roadside, by Esteban Rodriguez - O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done;
from the poem O Captain! My Captain!, by Walt Whitman - I saw the best minds of my generation, destroyed by madness
from the poem Howl, by Allen Ginsberg - The first boy to kiss your mother later raped women
from the poem Your mother's first kiss, by Warsan Shire - All you violated ones with gentle hearts;
from the poem For Malcolm X, by Margaret Abigail Walker - All night long I hear the sleepers toss
from the poem Such simple love, by Thomas McGrath - You chose to leave, that's fine by me
from the poem Choices, by Edward Baugh - All day the stars watch from long ago
from the poem Rain light, by W.S. Merwin - Your hands have no more worth than tree stumps at harvest.
from the poem A sestina for a black girl who does not know how to braid hair, by Rachel Jackson - I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
from the poem Sea fever, by John Masefield - There I was, all spread out for the taking,
from the poem From “Lacing”, by Tacey M. Atsitty - Ay, ay, ay, I am black, pure black;
from the poem From “Ay ay ay de la grifa negra”, by Julia de Burgos
