Run Every Race as if It’s Your Last
Rent from DeepDyve- Run Every Race as if It’s Your Last
as you round the bendkeep the steel and mouse-skinnedrabbit front left centerand the track and the crowdand its cries are a blurred ovationas you stumble and recoverand then fully fall even ifonly onto the rough gravelof your inside mind or outsidein what is called the real worldas how many drunken grandfathersholding little girls’ handsand broken peanut shells goswirling by why are you racingwhat are you racing fromfrom what fixed arm does thismoth-eaten rabbit runcaptive is different than stupidnear dead is different than deadthey call it a decoy but we knowa mirror when we see ourselveslurch and dive for one [End Page 39]
Lisa Olstein is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Little Stranger (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). She is a member of the poetry faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.
