Lenard D. Moore

Reminiscing in My Sixth Decade

Like a rebound, I want to return to Piney Green, where I walked up/down rows and rows of cornfields, tobacco fields, sweet potato and watermelon fields. I say I want to return to Piney Green, where cornstalk leaves whisper like ghosts. I want to sit on the front porch, wave at passing cars, drink lemonade from mason jars. I want to return to the homeplace where my kinfolks rest.

giant pear tree—
the lushness of greenery
where the clothesline was

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About the Author

Lenard D. Moore is an internationally acclaimed poet and anthologist whose works have been published in more than sixteen countries and translated into more than twelve languages. He is the founder and executive director of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective, co-founder of the Washington Street Writers Group, and the longtime executive chairman of the North Carolina Haiku Society.

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