Andrea Cohen
Spec
Every body
gets built
this way.
Then you
wait to see
who moves in.
Pear Tree
It takes two
in the city
garden to harvest
the tree. One
shakes it, and
standing near
the trunk, covers
her head.
The other
notes where
the pears
fall. And
the third, passing,
ravenous, wonders
where she
went wrong.
Andrea Cohen's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry,The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Her fifth poetry collection, Unfathoming, will be published next year by Four Way Books. Recent books include Furs Not Mine and Kentucky Derby. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA and the Writers House at Merrimack College.
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Every body
gets built
this way.
Then you
wait to see
who moves in.
Pear Tree
It takes two
in the city
garden to harvest
the tree. One
shakes it, and
standing near
the trunk, covers
her head.
The other
notes where
the pears
fall. And
the third, passing,
ravenous, wonders
where she
went wrong.
Andrea Cohen's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry,The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Her fifth poetry collection, Unfathoming, will be published next year by Four Way Books. Recent books include Furs Not Mine and Kentucky Derby. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA and the Writers House at Merrimack College.
Return to May 2016 Edition