The Origin of Sighs
Why do you sigh, love?
She asks.
Because I thought I had
misplaced my home on
an outbound train.
“Sometimes it is good to be wrong.”
Because the letter you have
written, though written in
the language of beating wings
Hasn’t told me anything.
a little later
under a yellow buzzing
street light
Why do you sigh, love?
she asks.
Because I left my heart with a
flock of ravens under a freeway
overpass during a thunderstorm
Because your two brown eyes
have found me at last
in the gentle gesture of wheat
We stand in silence on the bow
of a ship. She leans against me,
Why do you sigh, love?
Because there was a woman
sitting at a table, making shadow
plays against a wall and all
the world came to watch the
gentle movements of her hands.
Because tomorrow you will
leave, taking only one thing
from me
to remember.
Christopher
Christopher Leibow is a poet, visual artist and a sensei is a lay minister with Bright Dawn Way of Oneness Buddhism and is the sensei and founder of the Salt Lake Buddhist Fellowship which he has led for ten years. He has had his art and poetry published international. He lives in Salt Lake City and spends his time with his two youing boys Teague and Ronen
3 Comments
slpmartin
Found it to be an interesing poem to read…no sure what happened in the last stanza but I’m just on my first cup of coffee.
Joe Ivory Mattingly
Is this one of the new ones? Keep on it, vagabond heart.
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