LANGSTON HUGHES TRIBUTE ISSUE E. Ethelbert Miller   LANGSTON dark night the light of New York slipping out of my hand like my father's last breath before his heart failed I watch a young man throwing books into the water his fair skin younger than the moon we are on a boat going to Africa there is a halo of blues around his shoulders I turn and walk down the steps to the small cabin room I leave the young man with his sadness stories and poems I leave him with the music of the sea   E. Ethelbert Miller is the board chair of the Institute for Policy Studies and the director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University. He is editor of Poet Lore.   Published in Volume 12, Number 1, Winter 2011.   To read more by this author: E. Ethelbert Miller Miller on Sterling Brown: Memorial Issue E. Ethelbert Miller: Wartime Issue E. Ethelbert Miller: DC Places Issue Miller on Ed Cox: Profiles Issue E. Ethelbert Miller: Evolving City Issue E. Ethelbert Miller: Split This Rock Issue