New York: Harlem River Press, (1990). First edition - Award-winning poet's first collection - focused on exploring "the political realities in the lives of women" and containing many short poems on city life, homelessness, birthing as well as a long poem "rituals of spring" written on the 75th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire." This collection received the William Carlos Williams Award. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-863161367.