Island in the River
I, like you, am a landscape
of return of languages--
a river’s home.
This place of repair
of lighthouses of stone,
old growth forest just
small enough to enclose me.
I like, you, am totemic
geodesic ecosystem.
Place of convergence,
birch and sunflower.
You send me searching
for lost languages.
Deborah Leipziger is an author, poet, and advisor on sustainability. Born in Brazil, Ms. Leipziger is the author of Tell Me, published by Lily Poetry Review Books. Her poems have been published in ten countries in such magazines and journals as The Bombay Literary Review, Pangyrus, Salamander, Lily Poetry Review, and Revista Cardenal. Her work appears in numerous anthologies, including The Nature of our Times and Tree Lines: 21st Century American Poems. She is the Founder of the Lexicon of Change, a web-based platform devoted to the words we need for ecological and social transformation.
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