Mind Sprocket

We tell stories.

Mind Sprocket gives voice to simple and honest perspectives. We publish thoughts and experiences on our world. We tell stories.

Documenting the Unseen is our first book, and we just published! Get your copy today.

Lyn Lifshin

Lyn Lifshin’s Another Woman Who Looks Like Me (Black Sparrow) has been selected for the 2007 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence. Another prize winning book was released last year: The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian (Texas Review Press). For more, visit her web site.

Articles by Lyn Lifshin:

If Those Blossoms Don’t Come

Published in Verse on April 15, 2008

if the tangerine doesn’t
fill the house with thick
sweetness.

Ring

Published in Verse on April 15, 2008

Lets say you, even though you know I
mean I, found this ring in your mother’s
closet in a shoe box of what mattered.

After 15 Years

Published in Verse on April 2, 2008

its like not even one year is over.
When I couldn’t find your photo
graph it was losing your skin
again. It was there, the
one with your teeth still white, you
laughing near the Charles.

Cove Point

Published in Verse on April 2, 2008

Some afternoons, in a certain
mood, there’s a word, a name
I have to remember. Some
times its for no reason.