But Instead Has Gone Into Woods by Lyn Lifshin

A girl goes into the woods

and for what reason

disappears behind branches

and is never heard from again.

We don’t really know why,

she could have gone shopping

or had lunch with her mother

but instead has gone into 

woods, alone, without the lover,

and not for leaves or flowers.

It was a clear bright day

very much like today.

It was today. Now you might

imagine I’m that girl,

it seems there are reasons. But

first consider: I don’t live

very near those trees and my

head is already wild with branches

Lyn Lifshin has published  over 130 books and chapbooks including 3 from Black Sparrow Press: Cold Comfort, Before It's Light and Another Woman Who Looks Like Me. An update to her Gale Research Autobiography is out: Lips, Blues, Blue Lace: On The Outside. Also just out is a dvd of the documentary film about her: Lyn Lifshin: Not Made Of Glass. Just out: Femme Eterna and Moving Through Stained Glass: the Maple Poems. Forthcoming: Degas Little Dancer and Winter Poems from Kind of a Hurricane Press, Paintings and Poems, from Tangerine press (just out) and The Silk Road from Night Ballet, alivelikealoadedgun from Transcendent Zero Press Just Out.

Her website:www.lynlifshin.com