Marcia Cohee Obituary in a Poet’s Town   With Marta and Terri gone I will be leaving the canyon soon, and this town too rich for blood, this city of dreams entertained.   Where the promise of love is a soothing highway.  Floods and fire have cut their way through the pretense and vultures cruise here instead.   It will be a long time before I come back to joys set aside for some other place, some other winter.   Nothing remains of this world before the fire and flood that will bring it all down. Dreams dissolve into surgery and divorce.  That is   the whispered theme. Anything you see here you can’t afford.  Even in a dozen El Niño years, the ocean is not yours.

Marcia Cohee: 11/2/1949;  MFA from University of Massachusetts, and  teach at Learning Tree University in Costa Mesa, CA.  Books: Sexual Terrain,  Laguna Canyon Was Once  a River,  Bonefire.  Chapbooks: Eurydice,  The Dead,  Improvised Night,  Still Life,  It's Hard to Leave the Night Alone.  email:  M.Cohee

07-03