Dee Cohen

Location: Lake Forest, CA
Email: deecohen@home.com
Previous Publications: Faultline, California Quarterly, RipRap, Blue Satellite, Spillway, 51%, Red River Review, MonkeyFlower, New Works Review, Poetry Super Highway


LIME AVE EVENING

In front of the darkening school
I ran behind his bicycle,
one hand holding on,
and the building was a ship
that carried him out
to sea in the morning
and brought him back later,
pale and weak-kneed.
The flagpole, a mast
swaying in the sky,
and waves of shadows lapped
against the stone steps
as he fought to stay afloat,
the sidewalk lifting and falling,
the building rushing forward
and pulling back
on the gray swells of our poverty.
I let go
and he pedaled on,
the clouds above him streaked with red
and the sun extinguishing
in each empty window
as his small body sailed past.

- Poetry - That was the year of my magical underwear On the Seventh Day Abstract No. 6 Ashes to Ashes Lime Ave Evening friday Curving Requiem for a Blind Watchmaker How to Kiss the woman and the child A Poem to My Left Breast Moonlight Father's Mistress They Put All The Round Things Together - Prose - Shattered The Second Birthing of Young Tim Soundings - Play - Dust