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Home: a chosen skin
We don’t wear
But live heedless in
Can’t share
Exchange or shuck
Bequeathe to kin

A made luck
All we’ve ever seen
Done, been

Fortress, stage
Tightrope over rage
Loss, sin
Sickness, age

Diary on and in
Shelf, rack, bin
Wall, drawer
Crack and stain

Platinum or
Tin
Where we end
Wait, begin

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Alan Cohen was a poet before beginning his career as a Primary Care MD, teacher, and manager, and has been living a full and varied life. He has been writing poems for 60 years and is beginning now to share some of his discoveries. He has had 91 poems published in 40 venues over the past 6 months. He's been married to Anita for 41 years, and they've been in Eugene, OR these past 11.