For Leonard Cohen
These poems, written in January of 2018, were published in Noon #14, August 2019, except for “snow falling,” which appeared in Gift of Silence: A Haiku Tribute to Leonard (Ottawa, Ontario: Éditions des petits nuages, 2018), edited by Angela Leuck and Mike Montreuil.
the ash of poetry
filling the hearth . . .
winter chill
silently I add
a hallelujah . . .
first snow
dark aquarium—
a crack in my poem
lets in the light
kelp swelling
in and out
I become the ocean
snow falling
after the funeral
a deeper silence
