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Sunset Limited

A poem by Lyn Lifshin

"There are roads out of the secret place within us which we must all move thru as we go to touch others."
                        ~ Romare Beardan

woman in hot morning
light cradling her baby
like ripe fruit. Earth is
a bracelet around her.
She moves like a dancer
flashing chickens and
dark horse charms.
Nothing doesn't shimmer
as the Sunset Limited
blows thru. Emeralds,
jades and roses. The
train's whistles and
wheels, its music, light
blazing on mahogany skin

Copyright Lyn Lifshin

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Lyn Lifshin

Lyn Lifshin, whose book Before It's Light won the Paterson Poetry Award, has written more than 100 books and edited four anthologies of women writers. Her most recent collection is The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian (Texas Review Press, 2005). Godine will publish Another Woman Who Looks Like Me in April 2006. A new collection, Persephone, will be published by Red Hen Press.

Ms. Lifshin's poems have appeared in most poetry and literary magazines in the United States, and she has won many awards. She has also taught poetry and prose writing for many years at universities, colleges, and high schools, and has been Poet in Residence at the University of Rochester, Antioch, and Colorado Mountain College. She is working on a collection about poets, Poets, (Mostly) Who Have Touched Me, Living and Dead. All True, Especially the Lies. For more information, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of her work, and more, browse her website: www.lynlifshin.com.

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