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Deborah Leipziger is an author and poet. Her poetry has been featured in Ibbetson Street, Voices Israel, Bagels with the Bards, Popt Art, Scribblers on the Roof, The Muddy River Poetry Review, Zingology, Poetic Mindset, Levend Joods Geloof (Netherlands) and on the public television show Brookline Writes. Leipziger is the founder of the Jewish Poetry Fest sponsored by Temple Sinai in Brookline. She is currently working on her first chapbook. She is the author of several books in the field of corporate responsibility, including The Corporate Responsibility Code Book, now in its second edition. Her books on human rights have been translated into Chinese, Korean, and Portuguese. Born in Brazil, Leipziger has traveled to many countries throughout Latin and Central America, Europe and Asia, working with companies, governments, and civil society groups promoting more humane workplaces. She is the mother of three daughters, Natasha Lara, Jacqueline Lucia and Alexandra Nicole, her three muses.

Deborah Leipziger

The Northern Lights are Fading

Remind me of the colors of the Northern Lights

Refresh the view

Repaint the image

Green and pulsating like a heartbeat you tell me

But this is your memory, not mine

We had gone out

heeding the call:

go out into that good night

The lights begin in the horizon

beaming out

Sometimes purple yellow

the memory of a bruise

Sometimes green

emerald growing paler

Sometimes orange

pink like the afterglow of thunder

Memory is a painter

— Deborah Leipziger

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