A Million Shadows at Noon, by Lenard D. Moore

A Million Shadows at Noon, a haiku collection by Lenard D. Moore, is available from Cuttlefish Books.

“Through these haiku, Moore presents single, transitory moments to create a communal narrative about the strength, commitment, and humanity of African American men.”

—Ce Rosenow
author, Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions
Senior Editor, Juxtapositions: Research and Scholarship in Haiku

Some poems from the book:

gathering place
bus after bus idling
as the sun comes up

still marching
sun lengthens on the asphalt street
a million Black men

twilight plaza
the ghosts of ancestors
still marching

A Million Shadows at Noon was published by Cuttlefish Books, 2023.

Here’s Lenard in a performance with the University of Mount Olive Jazz Band at Oberlin Library in Raleigh, North Carolina, in April of 2023.