An edition of Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
(2012)
Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
by Aberjhani
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Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black is composed of 2 works of short fiction and 52 poems. It was first written and published as the global community not only came to grips with the reality of 9/11 in 2001 but as a number of catastrophes shook humanity to its collective core throughout the first decade of the 21st century.
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Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
July 2012, Black Skylark Singing and Lulu
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0966235649 9780966235647
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction, i
I. oh glowing bird of midnight love
Birth as Prologue (short story) 1
The Nomad’s Vision: Ode to a Skylark Dressed in Black 5
Magnetic Black Towards Light 8
Botanical Gardens #2 9
The Seeker 10
The Unseen Companion 11
The Drawing of the Two Dervishes 12
Song of the Black Skylark 13
Vampire Song: the Last Bloodfeast 16
Road Tune 18
And then the Rain God Screamed for Love 19
How the Sky God Confessed Love for the Skylark 22
II. one river crying and another river laughing
Fulton Street/The Series 25
Dead River Blues for Langston 26
In Regard to a Poet’s Birthday 27
DarkMagusMilesAhead#7 28
Sweet Brother Beat Bop Daddy K 29
When Giants Wave Goodbye 33
American Widow: Song for Coretta Scott King 34
Like It Is Us 36
Eli-Jah 38
Every Hour Henceforth 41
The Color of Things Unknown 43
A Dancer’s Strength and Grace 45
All in a Day’s Work 46
III. supremely robed in the diamonds of his skin
That Poem Is Not My Brother (short story) 49
IV. that’s how we ebony skylarks are
My Soul Lighting Candles 65
Delightful Aesthetics of Divine Dreamers 66
Blue Madonna Rising 68
Spiral Flower Ascending 69
Koo 4 70
The View from Where We Love 71
Koo 2 73
Up on Passion’s Rooftop 74
Abstractions of a Passion Divine 76
Coffee Morning Rhapsody 78
My One Favorite City 80
Shadow Candy 81
The Golden Art of Dreaming Naked 82
Teaching Fire How to Burn 83
A Jade Hieroglyphic 84
Same-Same 85
Scraping Concrete 86
Koo 7 87
The Coming of Angels 88
Koo 6 89
A Light of Sacred Whispers 90
Gratitudes of a Dozen Roses 92
V. where echoes of heaven sighed peace
Holiday Letter for a Poet Gone to War 97
An Angel for New Orleans 98
A Blue Rose for the Sergeant 100
Louie the Madman Cries for the World 102
Alvin and the Youth 104
Tattoo Blues for My Lover the Junkie 106
Bright Kiss of Insanity 107
The Earth in Rapture, Our Earth 108
Page from a Red Scream Burned in Translation 109
A Poem that Knew No Better 110
Acknowledgments 113
About the Author 115
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