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Simon Perchik

Simon Perchik

April 18, 2013 by PBQ

Simon Perchik is the author of several books 
of poetry, including Mr. Lucky (Shearsman Books, 1984), 
Who Can Touch These Knots, New & Selected Poems (Scarecrow
 Press, 1985), The Emptiness Between My Hands and These 
Hands Filled with Numbness (Dust Dog Press, 1991, 1996). His 
work has appeared in The Partisan Review, Poetry,
 American Poetry […]

Filed Under: Contributors 63, Contributors 66, Contributors 67, Issue 66 Tagged With: Contributors, Contributors 66, Contributors 67, Contributors 68, Simon Perchik

Simon Perchik: W 35

May 20, 2011 by PBQ

You almost drown and what’s left from an abandoned temple wall –on one knee carefully break loose that shadow the dead restore with more room, more air –you build a trench for clams brought back the way clouds have learned to grasp your shoulders for water and clam by far off clam trembling, fitted into […]

Filed Under: Contributors 63, Issue 63, Poetry, Poetry 63 Tagged With: Contributors 63, Poetry, Poetry 63, Simon Perchik

Simon Perchik: Two Poems

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

* Falling where the sun refills, its light from somewhere in this darkness someplace near the floor, your footsteps eaten as shadows have always known — ceilings are ice and stone and hunger and valleys swallowing lush streams and songs. Your shadow is thinner now and still I can’t loosen it, not even at night […]

Filed Under: Contributors 67, Issue 66, Poetry, Poetry 67 Tagged With: Contributors 67, Poetry, Poetry 67, Simon Perchik

Simon Perchik: 3 Poems

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

* New Jersey’s oldest abandoned iron mine —even this sprout sacrificed, its only leaf as if inside some small cage the last summer left turning yellow, fell —I listen for feathers for this paper unfolding almost a flower —the Times reports canaries gagging by the millions :trees disappearing in black love notes in myself, in […]

Filed Under: Contributors 68, Issue 68, Poetry, Poetry 68 Tagged With: Contributors 68, Poetry, Poetry 68, Simon Perchik

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