RABBI STEVEN LEBOW - POEMS

Rabbi Steven Lebow has published on line and in print in : Flash Fiction Magazine  , Literally Stories, Penny Shorts. The Airgonaut, The Bitshin’ Kitsch, 
The infernal Ink, Aphelion Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. 

Anticipating Jamaica

Anticipating Jamaica I come to scenes
of trains crossing jungle islands
in the island nights.
I am nursing at the breast of sky
that hangs through the window,
a sea wind a hundred miles
from the sea.
I passed a couple walking
and heard cool jazz blowing tunes
crazy, blind, and wild.

In some other part of life, I was.
Now, I am.
This is a melody it hurts to play.
I watch a child nursing his dull head
on his mother’s teats.
Away and far these scenes are played.
Away and far.


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​I saw a child

I saw a child 
playing on the street.
He kicked a rock 
and watched it skip away.
He ran towards it 
on naked, tiny feet,
as the shadows changed 
from morning into day. 

The trees waved to the rock, 
while the wind danced with the leaves.
I leaned against a tree 
and watched him run.
The summer turned to autumn, 
as a mother grieves.
And the trees, the rock, 
myself and the boy were one.

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​Memoir

Watching you
was like passing through
a dream.

The smoke blew
and a thousand hands
reached to shape it.

Dreams, smoke.
All are real.
You moved as if

the dream were chasing you.

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