Hurling words at consciousness : poems / Mukoma Wa Ngugi.

The letter to my nephew -- For Arthur Nortje and other disappeared African writers -- Bird in flight -- gifts of violence -- Bodies -- Underneath the umbrella of war -- Glimpses of war -- Thought as we got lost -- Recipe: how to become an immigrant and an exile -- On shadows and light -- After the verdict -- African revolutions -- The center is always moving and other things -- Photograph of Sarli Mercado -- Teaching ESL to refugee children -- At the Jimmy Cliff concert -- Once they lived together -- Transparencies -- Collage of minds, love and revolution dissected -- Portraits of my grandfather -- At the African studies center -- Memorial day, 2000 -- Roxburry, MA -- Death on blue hill avenue -- At the trackside bar, Atlanta, 9-11 -- Sequences for Sandra -- Remembrance -- Why I became a vegetarian -- Growing love -- Testimony of Sylvia Plath -- Diary of the day my pen committed suicide -- Excerpts -- The out of inside -- Guava --The night when Mukoma told the devil to go to hell -- At the blood donor center -- A prayer -- A song for sanity -- Commission -- To the driver who splashed me with rain water -- A fisherman's poem -- Law of averages -- Collage of death masks.