Martin     Gottlieb Cohen         Vol. 2, No. 2 - Summer 2001

CURRENT ISSUE Haiku Harvest Vol. 2, No. 2 - 2001     These poems are Copyright © 2001 by Martin Gottlieb Cohen. E-Mail: arts_humanities@webtv.net		the lighted steps of the escalator casino dawn     noon breeze ~ attic mirrors light the floor boards     Hiroshima the shadow of a tree in the old wall     the spray                                 See the haiga by from a sea wall                     artist, Kuniharu Shimizu. rainbow     mountain ~ the shadow spreading on water     a breeze ripples the pond warbler's song     About the Poet -- Martin writes: "I was born in the South Bronx somewhere on Simpson Street. And after three years, my parents took me to the southern east side of Manhattan. We lived in the only six story building of the Jacob Riis projects. All the other buildings were much higher. Our backyard was Con Edison at the end of 14th Street and F.D.R. Drive. I went to a yeshiva on East Broadway and Canal Street until I was confirmed. The Jewish Daily Forward, one of the few surviving Yiddish newspapers in this country, was near by my yeshiva at that time. And once I had to go on an errand to deliver a package there. When I arrived, the printer had me wait until he finished talking in Yiddish to someone. When that person left, the printer asked me if I knew Yiddish and I said no. Then, he asked me if I knew who that was and I said that I didn't. He told me that it was, Isaac Bashevis Singer, a famous writer. He asked me if I heard of him and I said no. After my Bar-Mitzvah, we moved again and I lived in the South of Brooklyn, the South of Long Island, the Southern Tier of Upstate New York, the South of Manhattan, and finally to South Jersey in Egg Harbor." Copyright © 2001 by Denis M. Garrison.