<div>"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<BR><br> <B>AS THE DAYS GET LONGER</B><BR><br> the horse dreams<BR> of flying in the air<BR> like a gust of wind<BR> on an abandoned<BR> Christmas tree,<BR> red exploding like<BR> a spurt of light,<BR> flaming wildly like<BR> those boughs of<BR> northern lights<BR> out of darkness</div>