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The Poetic City: “A Chance Encounter at Trombone’s Shorty’s Concert in Lafayette Square 5/27/12”

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue (photo: Joergens)

 

 

A Chance Encounter at Trombone’s Shorty’s concert in Lafayette Square    (5/27/12)

 

She was Black

I am White

She was young

I am old

She  carried weight,

(more weight than me)

And, her hair was straight.

(straighter than mine)

 

Different worlds

 

In different circumstances

Neither would  have seen the other

Except as context

 

Yet our paths crossed at just the right moment

And in the context of Trombone Shorty

She busted a move

In perfect sync with my own

 

Falling into the beat together

Neither of us flinched

We danced, and danced, and danced some more

To Shorty’s second line

 

Smiling and giggling at the unlikelihood of it all

She whispered so her friends couldn’t hear

“Oooh! We’re going to be in trouble.”

 

But, there was no trouble, only the transcendent moment…

And, as the concert closed

I leaned over, kissed her round cheek, and whispered

“Thank you darling, you made my day!”

As we each went our separate way