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***BIO*** Lyn Lifshin: She is working on a collection of poems about the famous, short lived beautiful race horse Ruffian and a new collection called THERE WERE DAYS, SO PERSEPHONE. For interviews, photographs, more bio material, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of work and more, her web site is www.lynlifshin.com
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MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
by Lyn Lifshin
that year,
the poet from the trees,
still only on paper

I’d picked up
photographs to send him,
my face round, candelabra

It was before his
huge face moved like
a snake hardly over me

Before I threaded
too many necklaces
of tears,

the nightmare of
having him,

the nightmare of
him go
Aug. 2006
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