* With the bedrock it needs though this city was built on rainwater :shards pieced together the way pots imbedded in ancient dirt let these dead drink by steps from stone scented with curtains still damp except for evenings lowered by hand into the last drop and foothold –pole to pole is what the graves […]
Simon Perchik
SIMON PERCHIK is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, Forge, The New Yorker and elsewhere. His most recent collection is The Rosenblum Poems published by Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library, 2020.
