a little cave to explore
you come out happier
for having been there
with its beard around
the words you've been
wanting a flower rose
petals opening hallway
you didn't know had so
many different rooms
all of them welcoming
you a glove saying
very good and shaking
sweet apricot half
with a moist place
for your tongue
a furry mouth with
its own tongue
space there's
always more room
in as it gets
more crowded
the more you
pull them the
more they grow
the bumpy
places smoothing
out as they get
long and bigger
some people won't
eat them until
the skin's off
I like them
small and sweet
tho I've a friend
who prefers the
huge ones
bake them in
a cream sauce
under the leaves
they come over
night but you
can only hold
so many in
your arms
I was thinking
of it this
morning, those
marvelous hairs that
curl around your words
and how they smelled with
frost all over
in the mountains
And yes especially of that
time on the floor
looking like the
middle part of a thick
leggy bug I could
just see
above my belly, moist and
floating up
asked
is this
making your blood glow
Lyn Lifshin has published more than 120 books of poetry and edited four anthologies of women's writing. Her poems have appeared in most literary and poetry magazines and she is the subject of an award winning documentary film, Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass, available from Women Make Movies. Her most recent books include Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness from Texas Review Press; Persephone from Red Hen; New World Press published Desire and just published All the Poets (Mostly) Who Have Touched Me, Living and Dead; and All True, Especially the Lies and Tsunami as History from PoetryRepairs.com. New York Quarterly books will publish A Girl Goes into the Woods in 2012. Two new books appeared in July 2012: For the Roses: poems for Joni Mitchell from March Street Press and Knife Edge & Absinthe, the tango poems from Night Ballet Press. Her web site is www.LynLifshin.com.
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