Leah’s Mom

By Steven Lee

Magnificently drawn, with God’s pencil.

I think she was trying to tell me something . . .

but as a guy, I couldn’t read the blood in the pan.

I was abrupt when I left . . .

not a second to think!

And her breath remained on the screen, leaving behind . . .

Steven Lee studied Creative Writing at SUNY Geneseo from 1996-2000. Since then, he has written poetry and short fiction as an undisplayed art form.