Poetry. -- you tie one shoe tighter/ till its shell cracks open/ and under each fingernail the pieces/ smell from damp mud, broken reeds/ riverside -- the bow stays wet (from TOUCHING THE HEADSTONE). Perchik's dreamlike transitions have been remarked upon by the Washington Perchik's poetry allows past and present, familiar and fantastic, banal and bombastic to co-exist with creative tension. Perchik dives deep into the unconscious in his poetry and emerges with much that is beautiful and strange. Simon Perchik's GANDOLF POEMS is also available from SPD.
Touching the Headstone
