Secretariat

The Red Freak, The Miracle

By: Lyn Lifshin

Narrated by: Bonnie Trost

"This full arc of life—bigger than imagination in a raging fire—is set on paper by a poet obsessed with beauty, hooves, and the passion of flight.... In Lifshin’s language, spare yet metaphorically profound, we enter into that animal grace that only a true poet can convey, as we race on from poem to poem, joining Secretariat in triumph—'not for a win but a coronation'.” —Laura Chester

"As the Days Get Longer"

the horse dreams
of flying in the air
like a gust of wind
on an abandoned
Christmas tree,
red exploding like
a spurt of light,
flaming wildly like
those boughs of
northern lights
out of darkness

©2014 Lyn Lifshin (P)2022 Texas Review Press