On the Point of Movement. (Poetry).
ON THE POINT OF MOVEMENT
Lenard D. Moore
So our daughter, having mastered the
dance
by popping, snapping, jerking, bopping,
jammed with my oldest sister, Angela
in the whitish light of sun and moon.
It was only on those days
when rap music rose and fell
across the carpet of grass
behind our blue shell of house.
We would shed the back deck
to join the flurry of arms and legs
when Angela and our daughter
scuddered
over the lawn to get in place,
yelled "One two three, work that body,"
breakdanced into shadow.
When it came time,
our daughter stood on the point of
movement,
leaned forward into the light
and the wide silence of the stage.
When the song broke loose
from the grooves in the phonograph
she was one with rhythm of drums.
Such popping, snapping, jerking,
bopping.
The audience kept beat, kept time
with their metronomic hands
in the popcom-fragrant air,
rising to a spiritual crescendo
as their teeth shone, shoene whitely
in the spreading darkness.
Lenard D. Moore is author of one full-length collection of poems FOREVER HOME, which was nominated for the American Book award. He is author of chapbooks, and booklets, and has published poems and essays in the following publications: CALLALOO cal·la·loo n. 1. The edible spinachlike leaves of the dasheen. 2. A soup or stew made of these leaves or other greens, okra, crabmeat, and seasonings. , ESSENCE, POETRY OF CANADA REVIEW, NORTH DAKOTA North Dakota, state in the N central United States. It is bordered by Minnesota, across the Red River of the North (E), South Dakota (S), Montana (W), and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba (N). QUARTERLY, COLORADO REVIEW, AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW The African American Review is a quarterly journal and the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association. , AGNI and MIDWEST QUARTERLY. He has received many awards for his writing, including a Margaret Walker Creative Writing Award and an Indies Arts Award. He is presently teaching at North Carolina State University History
Lenard D. Moore is passionate about writing as much as he is passionate about African American literature African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. The genre traces its origins to the works of such late 18th century writers as Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano, reached early high points with slave narratives . He is one of those writers who brings up the calvary, so to speak. He has written extensively on contemporary Black American writing. Lenard Moore bridges the gap between the intellectual and the populace. A Haiku haiku (hī`k  ), an unrhymed Japanese poem recording the essence of a moment keenly perceived, in which nature is linked to human nature. master and author of
three books, Moore reinforces the African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. voice through his
mentorship of new writers. He is founder and Executive Director of the
carolina Writers' Collective.
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