Lyn Lifshin
Snow in the Air, Cherry Blossom Reports Start Coming
In the pearl mirror, a woman in clutter watches light come over houses where trees tangled. What was dissolves, hunger in the dead. What was etched on the insides of the 14 k gold ring recedes, lifts from that circle like plum blossoms forced near the kitchen sink. There and then not, like a fetus, or love that can braid what’s gone back with lies. Or those thunder afternoons, the lightning brighter than fireworks, that electricity between us in our bodies, skin, your skin smell on mine, the roses slammed and we still had hours till your midnight show
Lyn Lifshin has published over 125 books and chapbooks, given over 700 readings and edited four anthologies of women’s writing. Her collection Another Woman Who Looks Like Me was selected for the 2007 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence. Persephone was published by Red Hen Press in October 2008. For other books and information, see her Web site: lynlifshin.com.
