Norwegian Woe, by Tricia Marcella Cimera

Melancholy Man and Mermaid, by Edvard Munch (Norway) 1896-1902

Norwegian Woe
 
"Then why do I feel alone?" So Long, Marianne, Leonard Cohen
 
Marianne taught Leonard 
fish is fisk   bird means fugl
 
Norwegian mermaids
know the cold and futile
 
the wish to fly away
to go   so long Oslo
 
Leonard taught Marianne
he was the Hydra bird
 
she was the song fish
swimming in his words

Tricia Marcella Cimera

Tricia Marcella Cimera is a Midwestern poet with a worldview. Her work is found in many diverse places online and in print, ranging from the Buddhist Poetry Review to The Ekphrastic Review.  Her micro-chapbook entitled GO SLOW, LEONARD COHEN, was recently released through the Origami Poems Project.  One of her poems is pleased to have earned a Pushcart Prize nomination.  Tricia lives with her husband and family of cats in Illinois, in a town called St. Charles, by a river named Fox, with a Poetry Box (also named Fox) in her front yard.