Belonging
Up above the loose lilac light slips through the silver-stretched clouds slumbering across the day’s dimming sky. And here down below I...
Inhabiting the Inexpressible
I began this poem in a doctor's office while reading Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson. I found myself having to...
Waking Dreams
I woke up at 4:30am this morning to the whispered sound of this poem's first line. And so, in the dark, I quietly scrambled through my...
Mount Koya
Mount Koya The moss-covered history rests like a softly sung sutra beneath the sleepy sun’s groggy light.
Seeking Feeling Knowing
Seeking Feeling Knowing by Lauren Taub Cohen I awoke to the sound of my heart thumping like quiet footsteps sinking into thick bands of...
Myths
Myths by Lauren Taub Cohen Stories existed long before the certainty of science. This morning I imagined people staring up a the sky and...
Wander to Awaken
Wander to Awaken by Lauren Taub Cohen Tolkien famously wrote, “Not all those who wander are lost.” He almost got it right. As a wanderer...
Unknown Sailor
I wrote this poem last summer while hiking up to White Point in Cape Breton. I was struck by the mysterious and gruesome story...
