Norbert Hirschhorn |
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The October Editor's Pick Poet is Norbert Hirschhorn Please feel free to email Norbert at: bertzpoet@yahoo.com |
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THE LAST NEANDERTHAL The red ball sinks into the sea Keeping warm with my woman Keeping full Eggs from their nests I can smell each tree I like to make noise When the long-legs came A STRANGENESS IN MY MIND So cold in the operating theatre. The surgeon drove a needle under Strapped to the gurney, head held firm, ECG Twin lamps on the surgeon’s magnifying Water flushed my eye. Breakup of crystalline Half-dream: suspended from the ceiling, Later that night, my eye went blind: as my beloved slept soundly beside me. LIFE-COURSE DEPARTMENT STORE entrance |
Norbert Hirschhorn is a public health physician, commended by President Bill Clinton as an “American Health Hero.” He lives in London and Beirut. He has published four collections, the most recent, To Sing Away the Darkest Days. Poems Re-imagined from Yiddish Folksongs (Holland Park Press, London, 2013). His poems have appeared in numerous US/UK publications, several as prize-winning. See his website: www.bertzpoet.com.
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