Written over the course of the years between the late 1960"s and 2011, this collection of poems is about the author"s evocative responses to a variety of experiences - such as his response to the announcement of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the sacred cows destroyed as a clergy person experiencing marital separation and divorce and the effort to fill that hole by an act of imagination, responses in the idiom of black folk culture to some expressions of the black consciousness movement in the decades of the 60"s and 70"s, stirrings awakened by teachers and classmates, relational responses to love and affection in spite of pre-defined cultural or religious boxes aiming to restrict its expression, and relational responses attesting to the author"s own faith journey. Organized in four parts, the poems of the first part point back in time "Before Blackness" captured the attention of the public and would be revolutionaries, a time when there were...