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. View all posts by martin gottlieb cohen
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)
a hunter hawk's scan
coils above this swimming rat
such dizzy lunch
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Beautiful and evocative imagery, Martin Gottlieb Cohen. Thanks for sharing this with us.
old forest-
a tree falls