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 […]
Simon Perchik
Simon Perchik: W 35
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 […]
Simon Perchik: Two Poems
* 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 […]
Simon Perchik: 3 Poems
* 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 […]