this slum with a moon in every puddle

 

 

 

(originally published in Presence, issue 43, January 2011)

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martin gottlieb cohen

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. Thanks Andrea, but I am still reeling from…

      in one breath the whole autumn

      —Valeria Simonova-Cecon

      tinywords | Issue 09.1 | 7 December 2009

  1. Ah, very nice! Which I do not mean as 'faint praise'. Just that even superlatives would scarcely do justice to this piece. I think it's as close to perfect as any poem can get.

  2. Thank you, Martin, for this reverently mysterious image. I feel a mood in it, akin to Frost’s image, “The woods are lovely, dark and deep”.

    Frances

  3. This holds a world-weary tone, all the promises the world makes–a moon in every puddle–surrounded by the truth of the slums. But the optimist is also at work here–for noticing so many.

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