"[Side by side everything rises as if your breath]" by Simon Perchik

Side by side everything rises as if your breath
once held two moons with room in your heart
for feathers — this emptiness waits for you

on each mountain side, step by step
you still hear the grass cast its shadow
upward then over the small stones buried

to thin the air — you too will be left here
still looking upward, there, there in the clear air
a flower that's not a place.

Simon Perchik

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, Forge, Poetry, Osiris, The New Yorker and elsewhere. His most recent collection is The Reflection in a Glass Eye  published by Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library, 2020. For more information including free e-books and his essay, “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities,” please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.
To view one of his interviews please follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSK774rtfx8

Headshot: Rossetti Perchik

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