Lisa Olstein is the author of four poetry collections: Radio Crackling, Radio Gone, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award; Lost Alphabet, a Library Journal best book of the year; Little Stranger, a Lannan Literary Selection; and Late Empire. In addition, she has published a book-length lyric essay, Pain Studies (Bellevue Literary Press, 2020). She teaches in the MFA programs at the University of Texas at Austin.

December Was Inconsolable and It Hadn’t Even Arrived Yet

by Lisa Olstein

It’s been months since the cat died

and still we find her hair on our clothes.
We dust. We vacuum. We plan to move
People on couch
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