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I felt butterflies, though I was not nervous. It was the same feeling that I remembered having as a kid at the starting line of a 440-yard dash or mile relay. Butterflies meant that I was ready to compete, and on this fall night in 1999, I was onstage inside the dimly lit Durham Armory, about to jam my poetry with a Raleigh-based gospel-jazz band called Best Kept Secret. Pearly eyes looked at me from the audience; lipsticked lips, red as strawberries.
“If notes were visible perhaps they would drift crimson, shimmer like autumn leaves“ From “At the Train Stop” from Geography of Jazz by Lenard D. Moore, published by 2020 Blair reprint of collection originally published by Mountains & Rivers Press. Acclaimed jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut joins poets Kyle Dargan and Lenard D. Moore for an intimate improvisation on words and music. Together they explore the magic that materializes when artists collaborate.
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