Category Archives: Poetry

Ozymandias at Mar-a-Lago

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Michael Cohen

I met a traveller from a strife-torn land Who said: “An orange and empty head of stone Screamed at the people . . . Near it, in the grandstands, Half drunk, a bitter correspondent, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and … Continue reading →

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Speaking as a Passenger on Time’s Arrow

Posted on January 2, 2016 by MEC

The future shifts and swirls even as you approach it, The present fleets by before you can grasp it, And the past is unrecoverable as it fades away. Nonetheless, the view…the view…

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Mainspring and Fall

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Michael Cohen

A unplanned collaboration via email: MICHAEL, are you grieving Over Apple Watch not shipping? This bright thing of man you With your old heart care for, can you? Ah, as the year grows older That lack will make you smolder By … Continue reading →

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Windy Weekend

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Michael Cohen

The windows shiver, palm fronds rattle, A hot wind blows from a graveyard somewhere. Ana returns, her saintly eyes burning, Bearing a nervous and dusty despair.

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Beowulf: The monster and the cricket

Posted on June 18, 2014 by MEC

I like Tolkien and I like Anglo-Saxon poetry. So, when a friend sent me a link to a New Yorker piece by dance critic Joan Acocello, titled “Slaying Monsters,” I clicked. Then I had to scrape the stupid from my … Continue reading →

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A Poem

Posted on May 22, 2014 by MEC

I have a big problem: It’s that I’m a Jew— A Jew that loves bacon And sausages too! And butterfly shrimp, And scallops in butter, And a bacon cheeseburger Makes my heart go aflutter! I’m my rabbi’s despair, And my … Continue reading →

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A haiku

Posted on June 21, 2011 by MEC

I think I’m in love. Of course, it could just be gas. Or it could be both.

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A short pantoum inspired by the opening line of “Gravity’s Rainbow”

Posted on December 19, 2010 by MEC

A screaming comes across the sky. A sound we haven’t heard before: A distant wailing thin and high, It drops into a dreadful roar. A sound we haven’t heard before, To freeze the blood within our veins It drops into a dreadful roar: The cries of … Continue reading →

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