Simon Perchik

 Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, Poetry, Osiris, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His most recent collection is Almost Rain, published by River Otter Press (2013). For more information, including free e-books, his essay titled “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.

• [It's a simple thing, you weep]
• [Exhausted, on its back the sun]
• [So many dead! let this pebble find her]
• [It's a struggle through your legs]
• [This carpet dropped at your feet]