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Lyn Lifshin’s Another Woman Who Looks Like Me was just published by Black Sparrow at David Godine in October, 2006. It was selected for the 2007 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence for previous finalists of the Paterson Poetry Prize. Her book about the short lived race horse, Ruffian: The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian came out from Texas Review Press in 2006. Visit www.lynlifshin.com.
If Those Blossoms Don’t Come
if the tangerine doesn’t
fill the house with thick
sweetness. If you put
your hands over your
ears one more time
when I’m talking. If
there’s another month
of wanting to sleep all
day, the cat the warmest
sweet thing I can imagine.
If this damn rain doesn’t
let up, I’m going to
have to rewrite the story
you’ve got in your head
about us and I don’t
think you will like
the ending