Jeffrey L Cohen

Jeffrey L Cohen

Visual Quiet

There needs to be a word that represents the removal of the overabundance of visual stimuli, especially from screens, from in front of our eyes. This may often accompany sitting quietly, but there

Checking Hydrants

A fire truck from our local volunteer fire department pulled up our street and stopped in front of a fire hydrant. One firefighter jumped out of the truck with a long poled tool.

Last Moving Tag

The movers put numbered yellow tags on every item before loading each into the truck. I knew that we would be removing them for months. Each of our six Adirondack chairs had its

Spinning, Competing Dreams

Is it possible to have two dreams at the same time? Or was it a dream within a dream? I woke up feeling like each dream was spinning out, like on two turntables

Single Tree Afterimage

I awoke on the couch and the brightness flooded in through the window. I immediately closed my eyes. There was an afterimage of a single tree burned into my retina. I hadn'