If Those Blossoms Don’t Come
by Lyn Lifshin
April 15, 2008 — Published in Verse
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 am 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
Lyn Lifshin
Lyn Lifshin’s Another Woman Who Looks Like Me (Black Sparrow) has been selected for the 2007 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence. Another prize winning book was released last year: The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian (Texas Review Press). For more, visit her web site.
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