“A century, a year, a single night…contains the entirety of history.” – Jorge Luis Borges
The Moon is Sheherazade.
She knows the stories will spool
allows the arc to loom
with silver thread.
Plucked from the night
stories eager for collection
patient lingering & coiling
seeking to be known.
The moon beaming her light stories.
Forest of wonder, each star a tree
Each planet an ocean.
How the moon grows like a story,
gibbous, skein of silver thread
even moonless the stories are present
in what has been removed
just like words erased from a poem
remain and linger
the unsaid unspooling.
Inspired by Leandro Katz’s art, “Lunar Sentence” and “Lunar Alphabet”, Museum of Modern Art, Workshop held on November 13, 2023 with Serubiri Moses.
Deborah Leipziger
Deborah Leipziger is an author, poet, and advisor on
sustainability. Born in Brazil, Ms.
Leipziger is the author of Story & Bone, published by Lily
Poetry Review Books. Her poems have been published in the UK, US, Canada,
Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Israel and the Netherlands, in such magazines and
journals as Pangyrus, Salamander, Lily Poetry Review, and
Revista Cardenal. Her chapbook, Flower Map, was published by
Finishing Line Press (2013). She serves as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for
Social Innovation at Babson. A recipient of grants from the Massachusetts
Cultural Council, Deborah has had residencies at T S Eliot House and Wellspring
House. Deborah co-created the Lexicon of Change, a guide to language around climate change and human rights.
