within the stillness rat’s ripples

 

 

( Originally published in Poetry Super Highway, December 2022)

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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. 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.

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    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)

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