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Andrea Cohen
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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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