Martin Cohen, US

 

 

Haiku   bank holiday another gust through the schoolyard swings whispering twins willow fluff passes over the crib wetland breeze twilight spreads onto the road scotch whiskey dusk howling dogs at the bottom of the glass a clean, well-lighted place shadows of leaves fleck the old man late autumn frost the bench gathers moonlight storm surge the boatman fingers the pipe bowl distant fires lovers shout under a blue moon midnight sun the Inuksuk shadow the arctic fox *Inuksuk, human-shaped Inuit markers of granite.

 

About Martin 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. This is Martin's first appearance in Sketchbook.