Upside down, as if this cup was once a blossomwould overflow with the tears mourners fill then row ashore— it’s empty, close to the grass though her grave is still damp from this hillside washing over it scraping from these headstonesa lighthouse for each wooden boat pulled from the sea—you heard a trumpet when the […]
Simon Perchik
Simon Perchik is an attorney. His poems have appeared in Partisan Review, Forge, and Poetry, among others. His most recent collection is The Rosenblum Poems 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.