Streetlight Magazine | Sharon Leiter | Activity https://streetlightmag.com/members/sharon/activity/ Activity feed for Sharon Leiter. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:18:28 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 d3682f75f0c6a38a4f61b860907cfc57 Sharon Leiter wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17384 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 19:40:30 -0400 Invitation to an Empty Church
 
In the rafters: hungry, silent mice.
Down below: the civilized ask light
to forgive them mediocrity.

The light they seek is a cage
in the rafters
above glass stained in […]

]]> 5bccb271573869c9c3457254bd0f8a48 Sharon Leiter wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=16333 Wed, 29 Jun 2016 18:36:23 -0400 Conveyance
 
Between the bones of the plat
and the sale of our land, so much needs

to be done to make the title clean.
The deed marked what everyone knew

then—the creek to the quarters
to the gr […]

]]> 3bb4faf301940255c20710ee12bdb51e Sharon Leiter wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=15345 Tue, 12 Jan 2016 05:30:12 -0500 Street of My Life
 
Street of my life, I have left you and I have returned,
   wandering nights in your renovated future,
The deed has passed into my keeping, and the dead,
   ever gracious, have agreed […]

]]> 8131c107c1174ea124f2c9a0ec96e372 Sharon Leiter wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=15942 Mon, 06 Jul 2015 03:50:04 -0400 Temple Age
 
Sycamores phrasal, ashen,
strap, bi-chromatic,

this cross-hatched, argent patch of woods.
Respond with hard answers, please.

My season is upon me.
Green in there somewhere, yes,

even […]

]]> 65c435430f6b501610cb77f01f52ced3 Sharon Leiter wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17406 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 18:42:29 -0400 I Was Born Too Soon After
 
I was born in a crowded chorus
of blizzard gusts,
combing the darkness
ten tiny fingers
(one for every day
I hung around the womb
past due).
 
I breathed in my mother’s gri […]

]]> 5003979caf5aeb85d1e64e1c0e318abf Sharon Leiter wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17418 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:45:17 -0500 Between Worlds
for Margie
 
Her arms flutter, as if
 
                  to flee her body, the milk
 
glass hands skimming sheets
 
                  like autumn wings:
 
thumb and fingers open and c […]

]]> fa217b052ed35f4b30709004630bf6b0 Sharon Leiter wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17422 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:41:07 -0500 Being Me
 
The Trip across Texas is mine.
Well, it’s in my name.
The bank picks up the tab,
I grab the fantasy:
he practices my autograph
in a cheap motel like a kid
does Mickey Mantle’s.
His girl […]

]]> b658eff258c72f4cbf8287719ab9117c Sharon Leiter wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17424 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:38:25 -0500 Accidental
 
Stowaway from Singapore,
no papers or passport,
surname unknown,

Short-tailed Babbler, Japanese White-eye,
Orange-bellied Flowerpecker,

whoever you are, passing passerine,
drawn to perch […]

]]> c9b8671e6180f7aaac189dd66df093a8 Sharon Leiter wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17512 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:04:49 -0400 Voices
 
I would be sitting there idly twirling
the strawberry perched on top
of the plump red pincushion
while she was hunched over the singer

filigreed foot pedal
making rhythmical clicking sounds
as […]

]]> 3b7bd8bb25cf12a2cbab71746a041887 Sharon Leiter wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17508 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:57:00 -0400 Woman at the Post Office
 
An old woman’s trouble in deciding
is holding up the line.
Another crowd, another time,
a loudmouth might complain,
but here in mid-morning, the retired,
mothers, students, all st […]

]]> 956cb47451b9d147a7201bceeb859151 Sharon Leiter wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=1028 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:30:48 -0400 On a wintry late afternoon in the early 1960s, I was driving from Providence, Rhode Island, where I studied at Brown University, to my apartment in Waltham, Massachusetts. I did this three days a week – a ride o […]

]]> f4f3687f1f737b30edfb92b9e35e40d5 Sharon Leiter wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17542 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:09:40 -0400 Rehearsal
 
The best thing about the house
I grew up in was that it sat at the edge
of a small weedy lake
where my mother and I would row
to a raft through a thick tangle
of water lilies, their white cups […]

]]> d99162a9cca987e07c505c86c2a278e3 Sharon Leiter wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=727 Mon, 07 May 2012 16:37:02 -0400 In my twenties I thought of language as a bridge, not from one place to another, but above an abyss. The damnation waiting below was ordinary chaos, the dissonant march of hours, the rush of unsorted, simultaneous […]

]]> 1ef73957d8875878f43d067024d5460a Sharon Leiter wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17590 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:05:25 -0400 I Revise
 
I revise because images,
like moth wings,
grow, hidden in secret shrouds,

because the sun
never stops seeking
an oak in every acorn,

because milkweed,
beautiful in bloom
offers […]

]]> 7ab1e3abca6a3ab8c03fec9557d20f0c Sharon Leiter wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17592 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:46 -0400 Letterpress, Bangor
 
I, too, discern it: an impression of the impression
left on leaves, the broadside’s bite, an invitation
through the mail in a bygone, backhanded braille.
The leaden shadows that hide th […]

]]> 70f947490771b4fd056691fa1c2a7d52 Sharon Leiter wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17588 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:10:00 -0400 A Tomato, Like Love,
 
starts small, a fuzzy flimsy seedling
sneaky worms would secretly undercut.

You could almost miss its yellowish blossom
that becomes a fruit, hard and green at first,

slowly […]

]]> f4e619377704d37bf2f13ed365efc14f Sharon Leiter wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17594 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:58:12 -0400 Popillia Japonica
 
For rows of sun-buttered, glistening corn, red and green trimmed vines of
tomatoes
wrapping themselves around silvery rusted poles, thick fields of gummy
blooming tobacco,
tangled […]

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