Lisa Olstein is the author of several poetry collections, including Distinguished Office of Echoes (Copper Canyon Press, 2025) and Radio Crackling, Radio Gone, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award. In addition, she has published a book-length lyric essay, Pain Studies. 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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