someone forgets for a
moment, thinks of
going next door to
borrow — then falls
apart. Someone
still expects a
woman with
strong arms
coming back
with groceries
and a joke. Some
one waits for a
black Honda, thinks
of the smell of coffee.
In another house,
someone starts to
make lunch but
there’s no one to
make lunch for.
She can’t stop
seeing the
shapes tumbling
from the sky.
Someone sets up
an alter with
incense and a drawing.
Her child stops
before it, says “come
eat dinner Daddy“
About Lyn Lifshin
Lyn Lifshin’s Another Woman Who Looks Like Me, was published by Black Sparrow at David Godine in 2006. Also published in 2006 was her prize-winning book about the famous, short-lived beautiful race horse, Ruffian: The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian from Texas Review Press. Lifshin’s other recent books include Before it’s Light, published winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow press, following their publication of Cold Comfort in 1997 and 92 Rapple from Coatism; Lost in the Fog and Barbaro: Beyond Brokenesss and Light at the End, the Jesus Poems, Katrina, Ballet Madonnas. For other books, bio, and photographs, see her web site: www.lynlifshin.com. Persephone was published by Red Hen, and Texas Review published Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness. Her most recent books are: Ballroom; All the Poets (Mostly) Who Have Touched me; Living and Dead; All True, Especially the Lies. And just out, Knife Edge & Absinthe: The Tango Poems. In Spring 2012, NYQ books will publish A Girl Goes into The Woods. Also just published: For the Roses, poems after Joni Mitchell.
