Cora’s Poetry – Page 2

In 1941

(dedicated to my late husband, a Holocaust Survivor) What would you have done To grasp with stiff fingers This coffee cup warmth. What would you have done To ease your blue frozen toes With these thermal socks What would you have done To be lured by the comforting waves Of this blazing fire Or for […]

I Can Pretend

(Written on International Women’s’ Day, March 2013 on Block Island, R.I.) I can pretend The distant upright boulder Stark on the breakwater’s tip Is a woman. Waves pound her Ocean water flooding her eyes Mingle with her tears But she will never succumb. As with the tides She takes it Takes it, takes it Again […]