within the stillness rat’s ripples
( Originally published in Poetry Super Highway, December 2022)
—martin gottlieb cohen
Issue 23.2 | 23 October 2023
within the stillness rat’s ripples martin gottlieb cohen
Some creatures can make things feel still somehow, and rats calmly moving through water may be one of those instances.
.
sewer rat breaking the water surface its shut eye
Alan Summers Haiku Spirit #16 Ireland, (1999) Anthology: The New Haiku (Snapshot Press 2002) Collection: Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)
a hunter hawk's scan coils above this swimming rat such dizzy lunch
__m
Beautiful and evocative imagery, Martin Gottlieb Cohen. Thanks for sharing this with us.
old forest- a tree falls
Name (required)
Mail (will not be published) (required)
Website
Δ
October 23rd, 2023 at 8:58 am
within the stillness rat’s ripples
martin gottlieb cohen
Some creatures can make things feel still somehow, and rats calmly moving through water may be one of those instances.
.
sewer rat
breaking the water surface
its shut eye
Alan Summers
Haiku Spirit #16 Ireland, (1999)
Anthology: The New Haiku (Snapshot Press 2002)
Collection: Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)
October 23rd, 2023 at 10:15 am
a hunter hawk's scan
coils above this swimming rat
such dizzy lunch
__m
October 24th, 2023 at 5:25 pm
Beautiful and evocative imagery, Martin Gottlieb Cohen. Thanks for sharing this with us.
October 26th, 2023 at 2:35 pm
old forest-
a tree falls