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Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
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by
Simon Perchik
As if a rope, half bone
half pulled from your chest
the way this dead branch
tells you everything then closes
though the wood won’t burn
–so many things are made from doorways
and she was left inside
with nothing to sit on or a stone
that will fall by itself, broken off
to die alone, whispering goodbye
for two and this dirt not yet
just another hole that weighs too much.
Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
Simon Perchik
United States
Simon Perchik has published over 1000 poems in journals and periodicals that include The New Yorker,
Partisan Review and The Nation. His opus Hands Collected: The Books of Simon Perchik
(poems 1949-1999) was published by Pavement Saw Press, and is a compilation of 16 earlier books.
Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
