his body, hips shaping, twisting me apart from myself like a river of lost days. I said I would talk about him the way tribes keep memory from going away. But I confess, not a whisper. When the music starts, it’s another other’s arms, as of course it always was
Lyn Lifshin‘s poetry collection, “Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness,” about the courageous race horse, was recently published by Texas Review Press. Known as “Queen of the Small Presses,” Lyn has written numerous books of poetry and has edited four anthologies of poetry by women.