Poems by Marion Cohen and Susan Notar

Marion Cohen

The Five Senses

Smells, sights, and sounds travel through the air
But taste and touch have to be right there.

©2019 Marion Deutsche Cohen

Marion Deutsche Cohen is the author of 27 collections of poetry or memoir; her latest poetry collections are “The Project of Being Alive” (New Plains Press, AL) and ^“ “New Heights in Non-Structure” (dancing girl press, IL). She is also the author of two controversial memoirs about spousal chronic illness, a trilogy diary of late-pregnancy loss, and of “Crossing the Equal Sign”, about the experience of mathematics. She teaches a course she developed, Mathematics in Literature, at Arcadia and at Drexel Universities. Other interests are classical piano, singing, Scrabble, thrift-shopping, four grown children, and five grands. Her website is  marioncohen.net .

Susan Notar

Travelers

When dusk descends in a crescendo of purple, mauve, vermilion
coolness, like peace, like forgiveness, nestles upon us.

@2019 Susan Notar

Susan Notar’s work has appeared in a number of publications including Penumbra,y,American Literary, Joys of the Table:  An Anthology of Culinary Verse, and What Lies Beyond the Frame, an anthology from the Bridgewater International Poetry
Festival entitled after a line in one of her poems.  She is a member of the Poetry Society of Virginia and works at the U.S. State Department on human rights in the Middle East.

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