Martin Cohen was born in the South Bronx somewhere on Simpson Street, went to a Yeshiva on East Broadway and Canal Street, and then lived in the South of Brooklyn, the South of Long Island, The Southern Tier of Upstate New York, The South of Manhattan, and finally South Jersey in Egg Harbor.
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waiting
for a new occupant-
last year’s nest
spring snow falls
swans
disappear
blossoms borne on the wind
cross the tilled field —
robins race from grub to grub
spring thaw
the class
warm with laughter
winter’s parting embrace –
seedling withers in the sun