After the Rain Falls
By Timothy Moore, Ernest L Gibson and Rashawn Ray
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Rainfall throughout history has represented both rebirth and cleansing through the cyclical processes to create the best form of a being. The idea of how rain comes and goes is the root of this work. In life, there are critical teaching points that etch out who the person truly is or becomes. I have intentionally embraced the challenges
Timothy Moore
Timothy Moore is a Korean American writer and instructor living outside Chicago. He has work published in McSweeney's, Midnight Breakfast, Ghost Ocean Magazine, and the Chicago Reader, among others. He is a Kundiman and Luminarts Fellow, and has had a Hinge Arts Residency. He has worked at a number of independent bookstores and universities and has his MFA in Creative Writing from Roosevelt University.
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After the Rain Falls - Timothy Moore
Dedication
To my daughters, my love, and everyone that has ever chased a dream.
May joy find you in this life.
Table of Contents
Dedication
Preface
Foreword
Chapter One: Acknowledge The Storm
Struggle
Make Believe
Wild Things
Treasure
Seizures
Ashes
Worthy
Cancer
Still Born
Chapter Two: Awareness Within the Chaos
Big Boy Blues
Sticks And Stones
The Villain
When The Pandemic Came
Stardust
Absent Notes
She
For The Black Girls That Never Come Home
Black Girl Magic
Graffiti and Teddy Bears
Twenty-Three
My First Love Letter
Invisible Hoodies
Black Diamonds
Before We Grew Up
Dear Son
Birthday Candles
Chapter Three: The Awakening - After The Rain Falls
#Issasnack
Just Beautiful
Secrets
I Loved Once
#Metoo
Chameleon
Dear Black Men: That’s Gay
Phobias
Tears For My Daughter
Three Letters
Scars
A Love Letter To America
Smiles
Enter
Spades
Stained Glass
Cry
For My Grandpa
Wrong Woman
When They Tell You That You Are Dying...
To My Father
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Preface
For every reader who has questioned, What do men feel?
I offer this collection of poems, essays and ideas. I am not every man but a lot of these circumstances, ideas, and life moments exist in and around my brothers. My goal was to shine a light on topics that we as a society dim or intentionally hold in the dark. This collection represents my journey through this life. It is a love letter to masculinity, family and all the beautiful women that have poured into my life. It is a sincere hallelujah of resurrection from my broken.
To my parents who never stopped believing in me- Thank you. They say printed words last forever. I want the world to know that I owe you both so much for every award that ever came my way. You all were the inspiration for my success.
Love and light to my siblings, my precious love Andrea, my god-parents (The Jones family), Christopher Truth B. Told
Owens, the Hall family, my fraternity line brothers, and my daughters: Iyanla, Asha and Imani. You all have been my village.
To my brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., There are so many men, mentors and so many souls that have impacted me to be a man that continually seeks to transcend. It is in that pursuit that I have found happiness to become more than what I was or am. I praise God for thee.
To my beautiful three daughters- I pray when God and this Universe calls me home after a long life that this work captures who I was. More than that, I wish that the words show you all how much I loved you and how the three of you inspired me to be a better man than I ever thought possible.
Honestly, I don’t have many more words so this may be the shortest preface in the history of books. All the words I hold for now are in this book. It is my soul bared raw and unapologetic between the pages. Black beings held in space. They are waiting to find a home in your heart for you to consider.
Within this book, I pray that the words hold you. May the words encourage you as they have me through the storms. I pray that more words come for my next journey. For now, I simply say thank-you for allowing me space in your life. I thank the Creator God for all that has blessed me with this ability. This book is for after the rain falls. May joy find you in this life and beyond every storm that comes your way.
Best Regards,
Timothy Urban Thoughts
Moore
#Onward
Foreword
Reading for the Wanderer
Ilike to imagine that poems are like wanderers. That they are forever searching until they find a place they can call home. In a sense, poems are born before poets, they usher in a new way of artistic being, they call forth their subjects. After the Rain Falls is evidence of this. It is a collection of poems that reveals the reality of how language often chooses its vessels, how the art of conjuring is always already pre-ordained by the words’ search for someone to help them mean. Timothy Moore is lucky in this way. For the words that are to follow have chosen him, have deemed him worthy to offer them to this world and its readers, have found in him the artist who will help them to mean something more, perhaps for someone else. We, of course, are luckier. As readers of these amazing poems, we have the privilege of invitation. Moore herein has bore both his strength and vulnerability, has dared to peel back the cloaks of comfort that keeps most men silent, and has, indeed, invited us into a sacred space. Within these pages, Moore constructs an altar of language, and in a tone at times as faint as the voice of dawn, he asks for us to partake. And so, whether ready or hungry, we shall.
Beyond the Performance, Beneath the Text
I remember the first time I met Timothy – it was through the sound of his voice. Sure, I heard the emcee announce him as Urban Thoughts,
and I was curious to see what this poet had to offer to the crowd that night in Memphis, Tennessee. However, I did not fully see him until I felt him, until his voice announced him as an artist, until his words took hold of my attention. I sat in the dimly lit space, and after listening to a round of poets, I did not expect to hear his poetic vocality. His utterance had a very particular texture, almost as if his spoken words were tactile, like if you were close enough you could literally feel them upon your skin. This way of touching, of moving the listener from stranger to witness, of beckoning the curious into an intimate space of sharing is the wonder of Timothy Urban Thoughts
Moore. And while he possessed those signature traits of dope spoken word artists, those elements that ensure high scores from slightly intoxicated judges, there was also something more. There is always something more with him. I imagine the words demand it. And again, we are lucky.
Performance and printed poetry are very different genres. Rare is the poet skilled enough to deliver in both mediums. The rhythm demanded by spoken word artistry – the way it calls on the body for its form and its movement, the leaning into the performative – often runs counter to the specificity of craft in the written form – the quiet reliance and trust that must be placed within the reader, the vulnerability of the body’s absence in the text’s most naked