In the sound of the prairie marbled Godwit
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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. View all posts by martin gottlieb cohen
Love when the bird is named!
In the sound of the prairie marbled Godwit
—martin gottlieb cohen
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Wonderful!
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I loved doing this for a haibun:
Lesser Redpoll the paper cuts in semi-skimmed milk
barely drifting snow the Black-tailed Godwit
Brambling bright with snow the boy’s room blinks back stars
Barnacle goose your Old Norse unfurls free
Fieldfares at sundown the kettle losing its whistle
Phoenix fowl the use of fingers and silk bookmarks
Meadow Pipit how they hold our muscle memory
Alan Summers
HAIBUN: Pulpit to Pipit
Contemporary Haibun Online issue 20.2
ed. Lorraine Padden (August 2024)
garbage scow
plunging into its sound
laughing gull