Moriah Cohen, runner-up in the 2013 Narrative 30 Below Contest, received her MFA from Rutgers-Newark, and her poetry has appeared in numerous journals. She lives with her two sons in New Jersey and teaches at Ramapo College in Mahwah.


RUNNER-UP


Five Poems

by Moriah Cohen

Hansel and Gretel

Sometimes it gnaws like fairy tale:
            Lawrence and I following bread-crumb
feathers to our parents’ bedroom.


We are children who believe everything
            stumbled upon is meant only for us.
People on couch
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