D. Scot Miller: AfroSurreal Generation

After Coltrane On Coltrane at Luggage Store Gallery September 2010

Afro Surreal Generation (Poem The First)

Afro-Surreal Generation
Today,
The energy went to building Tupac and Biggie Smalls
Pez dispensers,
Sun Ra and Henry Dumas facing each other
on a palette of twilight,
Derby hats, burkas and
masks.
And remember its thronged
seduction.
The pressing of face and corpuscular beat. The rush
to connect to
those eyes,
that coat,
those sandals,
tattooed knuckles.
Wonder how much done for
love
How much done for
lack of.

About Me

D. Scot Miller: Oakland, CA, United States; D. Scot Miller is a Bay Area writer, visual artist , teacher, curator. He sits on the board of directors of nocturnes review, and is a regular contributor to The East Bay Express, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Popmatters, and Mosaic Magazine. He is completing a book of poems, his Afro-surreal novel, Knot Frum Hear, and has recently published his old fashioned manifesto simply titled: AfroSurreal.

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