Simon Perchik
No more than a clink, impatient
would surprise you though this wall
is used to stones that gather
where a tower should be
what you dead heard was the cry
when another grave is born
and some three billion year old rock
makes a sound, has the faint voice
that left you to hollow out the Earth
the way all bells are made
from what it's like to grieve
for so long and in silence.
Bio
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, Forge, Poetry, Osiris,
The New Yorker and elsewhere. His most recent collection is The Family of Man Poems published by
Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library, 2021. For more information including free e-books and
his essay "Magic, Illusion and Other Realities" please visit his website at
simonperchik.com
To view one of his interviews please follow this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSK774rtfx8