Poetry |

Four Poems

Even

         after Bill Knott

 

Even your neck’s a petty

crime, he said to anyone

 

walking past the bullet-

proof room he wasn’t.

 

*     *     *     * 



On Divinity

 

I believe in divine

intervention. When

 

the gods rush past,

I tackle them.

 

*     *     *     * 



 

Passing the Torch

 

It hurts when

they hand it

 

to you, and

when they

 

say: pass

it on.

 

*     *     *     * 



 

Mantle

 

I have––

on my mantel ––

 

a jam jar filled

with nails. Every-

 

thing I love has

burned down,

 

but I still have

my mantle

 

and my nail

aquarium. I

 

still have

my fire.

Contributor
Andrea Cohen
Andrea Cohen’s most recent collection of poems is Nightshade (Four Way Books, 2019). A new collection, Everything, will be out in 2021. Cohen’s poems have appeared in The New YorkerThe Atlantic MonthlyThe Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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