lit fish stall
open mouths darken
in the night

 

 

 

Author’s note: This video shows the last days of the Fulton Fish Market in New York.

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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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  1. Being a Brit, here's a link to the famous Billingsgate Fish Market: http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/corporation/LGNL_S…

    salt-sea-bream 's
    gum also cold
    fish 's shop

    Basho trans. David Landis Barnhill

    Basho's Haiku: Selected Poems of Matsuo Basho
    State University of New York Press (Aug 2004)
    ISBN-10: 0791461653
    ISBN-13: 978-0791461655

    gathering dusk
    outside a quayside café
    fishermen’s lines

    Alan Summers
    1.) International Kusamakura Haiku Contest Nov. 1998 Nyuusen Prize
    2.) 3LIGHTS ‘Nocturne’ January 1st – March 31st 2008
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      1. In the fish shop
        The gums of the salted sea bream
        Are cold.

        Composing Zen Haiku: Training to Make Sense
        Journal article by Stewart W. Holmes; ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 52, 1995

        ——

        fishing village
        the bow lanterns fade
        in the dawn

        me

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    1. Hi y,

      I remember when it was in lower Manhattan and passed it all the time on the F.D.R. drive (East River Drive). You could smell it ten blocks away, LOL. Strange about Intense Debate…

      Thank You and Good Luck,

      martin

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