Lee Varon is a social worker and a member of Somerville’s Bagel Bards.

Lee Varon.

DREAMING

Keep living like you’re dreaming

Jason Wright

I will always keep dreaming    you

not homeless

not slipping beneath icy water

no ambulance called

not dragged under palm trees,

glare of sun

too many skaters on the boardwalk

Dreaming no officer

picked you up

blacked out    incoherent

phone stolen

homeless shelter Ward’s Island

bunkmate    crack head chattering all night

Keep dreaming no rats

scurry around you

Everett junkyard

liquor seeping from your pores

last pawned trinket

my mother’s cross    turquoise center

Keep dreaming you don’t break in

take everything

dreaming

You keep living like you’re dreaming

You’re living like you’re dreaming

outrunning death

in your cloak of black leaves

— Lee Varon

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