The Dream of Longing,
Waking Up at Midnight
Waking Up at Midnight
by Lyn Lifshin
white birds circling
the Blue Mosque.
Wild shapes below
the window. This
jolt, glow below the
Blue House. This
ache. And what if he
knew, what if he
read this?
____________________________
Lyn Lifshin is the author of many books including Another
Woman Who Looks Like Me (Black Sparrow at David Godine,
2006), Nutley Pond (Goose River Press, 2008), Barbaro: Beyond
Brokeness (Texas Review Press, 2009), Ballroom (March Street
Press, 2010), Katrina (Poetic Matrix Press, 2010), Knife Edge &
Absinthe: The Tango Poems (NightBallet Press, 2012), and For
the Roses (March Street Press, 2012). In addition to writing,
Lifshin has edited several anthologies of women writers; taught
poetry and prose writing at universities, colleges, and high schools;
served as Poet in Residence at the University of Rochester,
Antioch, and Colorado Mountain College; and been the subject
of the documentary film Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass. More
information is available on her website at www.lynlifshin.com.
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white birds circling
the Blue Mosque.
Wild shapes below
the window. This
jolt, glow below the
Blue House. This
ache. And what if he
knew, what if he
read this?
____________________________
Lyn Lifshin is the author of many books including Another
Woman Who Looks Like Me (Black Sparrow at David Godine,
2006), Nutley Pond (Goose River Press, 2008), Barbaro: Beyond
Brokeness (Texas Review Press, 2009), Ballroom (March Street
Press, 2010), Katrina (Poetic Matrix Press, 2010), Knife Edge &
Absinthe: The Tango Poems (NightBallet Press, 2012), and For
the Roses (March Street Press, 2012). In addition to writing,
Lifshin has edited several anthologies of women writers; taught
poetry and prose writing at universities, colleges, and high schools;
served as Poet in Residence at the University of Rochester,
Antioch, and Colorado Mountain College; and been the subject
of the documentary film Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass. More
information is available on her website at www.lynlifshin.com.
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Apple Valley Review:
A Journal of Contemporary
Literature
ISSN 1931-3888
Volume 8, Number 1
(Spring 2013)
Copyright © 2013
by Leah Browning, Editor.
All future rights to material
published in the Apple
Valley Review are retained
by the individual authors
and artists.
www.applevalleyreview.com
A Journal of Contemporary
Literature
ISSN 1931-3888
Volume 8, Number 1
(Spring 2013)
Copyright © 2013
by Leah Browning, Editor.
All future rights to material
published in the Apple
Valley Review are retained
by the individual authors
and artists.
www.applevalleyreview.com
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