Fall/Winter 2013



Lynn Lifshin

HOW IT SLAMS BACK, A LETTER USED AS A BOOKMARK

who could figure out
love? Not the old
blues men with
their whiskey and
women, women who’ve changed
the lock on the door.
Not Robert Johnson,
busted and poisoned.
Blues all around the bed,
the blues dogging,
dusting his broom.
How could some old
words make me remember?
Baby, won’t you follow
me down. Old words.
No words. Even before I
started thinking of
him I knew if he
read this it was way
too late


Lyn Lifshin’s Another Woman Who Looks Like Me was published by Black Sparrow at David Godine October, 2006. Her 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 Brokeness and Light at the End, the Jesus Poems, Katrina, Ballet Madonnas. For other books, bio, photographs see her web site:: www.lynlifshin.com

 


 

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