Robert Cohen
At Smelt Sands Beach
Dead mastadon of rock
driven from the cliff
to lie obliquely on a silken pillow,
trunk still uplifted: Did you appeal
to angels with your Gabriel-horn,
or were you just waving off a sniffle
when the sun set funereally--
the shore your tabernacle,
your desert the sea?
Bio:
A native Chicagoan, Robert Cohen moved to Portland, Oregon some 13 years ago, where he worked variously as a writer, editor, and advocate for the homeless. He has recently relocated to Coos Bay, Oregon to devote himself to writing. His first volume of poetry, Talking Back to the Moon, is forthcoming from Traprock Books.
