| My Father on His Shield Shiny as wax, the cracked veneer Scotch-taped |
| Yesterday My friend says I was not a good son |
| Daddy You do not do, you do not do |
| Parents What it must be like to be an angel |
| The Idea of Ancestry Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black |
| Father Outside A black river flows down the center |
| my father moved through dooms of love my father moved through dooms of love |
| Inventing Father In Las Vegas If I could see nothing but the smoke |
| Do not go gentle into that good night Do not go gentle into that good night, |
| Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon And there are days when storms hover |
| My Father was a cowboy |
| Shaving Your Father's Face First I get a father |
| My Father's Leaving When I came back, he was gone |
| The Portrait My mother never forgave my father |
| A Story Everyone loves a story. Let's begin with a house |
| Those Winter Sundays Sundays too my father got up early |
| 'The child is father to the man.' The child is father to the man |
| Descriptions of Heaven and Hell The wave breaks |
| Blood |
| Man of the Year My father tells the story of his life |
| With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach We would climb the highest dune, |
| American Primitive Look at him there in his stovepipe hat, |
| My Father Remembers Blue Zebras He remembers that he lost his wallet |
| The Ferryer Three years after my father's death |
| The Idiot With green stagnant eyes |
| Lay Back the Darkness My father in the night shuffling from room to room |
| Meeting with My Father in the Orchard Past noon. Past the cinema |
| My Papa's Waltz The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy |
| A Situation for Mrs. Biswas When I received the call I was in a store in Missoula, Montana |
| Father My father knows the proper way |
| Only a Dad Only a dad with a tired face |
| A Boy and His Dad A boy and his dad on a fishing-trip |
| Passing When the Famous Black Poet speaks, |
| The Last 4 Things [That hard thread] The hard thread |
| The Trouble Ball [excerpt] In 1941, my father saw his first big league ballgame at Ebbets Field |
| Renewal [Excerpt] I set you free that night, father |
| Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World The eyes open to a blue telephone |
| My Father's Hat Sunday mornings I would reach |
| To Her Father with Some Verses Most truly honoured, and as truly dear |
| Whose Mouth Do I Speak With I can remember my father |
| Working Late A light is on in my father's study. |
| A Story Sad is the man who is asked for a story |