Obsession With Technicolor:

Preface to a Memoire in Epiphany

a book of poetry in two parts

1. Irony:

• You Dig?
• A Lesson In Opposites
• Temptation!
• Trilogy
• Lavish
• On Langston Hughes (mentor)
• Enlightened
• At Mandalay Bay
• Seven Adages
• Gracefully
• Question Marks
• Rhetorical In Three
• Oryx Moons
• That Four Letter Word
• Hustle & Bustle
• Cacophony
• Boy?

2. Humor :

• A Wise Old Man
• Oooo Weeee, Oooo Weeee (tribute)
• Picasso-mad (profound)
• Music
• Rhythm (2002)
• Bohemian Principle (shall I?)
• Lovechild
• Duet (a blasé frustration)
• Complexes (inferiority and superiority)
• Hypocrisy In A Wig
• Clarice’s Holiday
• Satire On Humanity
• A Playground Plea
• Unperturbed In Tennessee (2002)

3. Naked Truths:

• Touché Or Two (brother)
• Crying Shame
• Truths
• Come!
• I Grip Tight (will he?)
• Acknowledgement
• Three Bleak Observations
• Emancipation (Requiem:  September 11, 2001)
• Open Arms
• Why All That Jazz? (I hear war)
• Applewood Apartments (Tennessee, 2002)
• Irony-clad Notions
• My Due (a reflection ago

4. Love:

• Just The Two Of Us (everything)
• Infinitely (a letter to my husband)
• About Romeo (eyes on the prize)
• Yes (I’ll be Juliet, I’ll be a courtesan)
• I Reminisce On A Soulful Strut
• More Of That Jazz (I feel peace)
• Truelove
• Unabashed
• A Cardinal, The Dove
• My Favorite
• Inspiration (to us, for us)
• Mahogany “Love-me” Potion
• Sweet Italia
• Autobiography

5. Tennessee Collaged

• Seasons In TN
• Lovestory Lyric
• Thank You (the joy of naïveté)
• Tennessee (first…snow)
• La-di-da (yes?…)
• It Ain’t My Fault (on time)
• I Dream Of Tennessee
• Where Is The Joy
• Tennessee Dawn-time Fog
• Rain Today Or Shine (provocative)
• Scandalous Silhouettes

6. Spiritual Mélange

• On The Eve Of Life (2 minute consummation)
• Correction
• Hell No!
• Fact
• King Of Sorrow
• Lonesome Dove In Lavender
• The Colour Of God’s Favorite
• Daydream
• Eve & Adam (eternally)
• Genuine Reflection
• Spirituality v. Religion (WWJD)
• Simply Noble Peace (a prayer)
• Hope In The Midst (about Ms. Sadie)
• Time
• Eve Of Humanity (… about me)
• Father Time (for me…)

7. Pieced Hodgepodge:

• Poetry:  The Essence
• Soliloquy In The Key Of Jazz (a note for Joshua – 2001)
• Titles (in collaboration)
• Courage
• When I Finally Sing
• That Alabama Song (a toast)
• Bohemia And Innocence
• Shapes, Colour, The Wind
• Imperial Wind
• My Obsession With Technicolor
• Circle Of Emotions (classic)
• Walking On Water
• Pity (… of persecution)
• Sorrow
• A Letter
• Masks (unmask you)
• Sojourn To Epiphany
• A Liberator’s Reverie
• Coping Openly
• Perhaps & Maybe
• Call Me Dr. Jackson (on philosophy)
• Titles II (in collaboration)
• Trilogy II
• Jumping The Broom
• Reflection On Wisdom (preface)