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Robert Perchan's poetry chapbooks are Mythic Instinct Afternoon (2005 Poetry West Prize) and Overdressed to Kill (Backwaters Press, 2005 Weldon Kees Award). His poetry collection Fluid in Darkness, Frozen in Light won the 1999 Pearl Poetry Prize and was published by Pearl Editions in 2000. His avant-la-lettre flash novel Perchan's Chorea: Eros and Exile (Watermark Press, Wichita, 1991) was translated into French and published by Quidam Editeurs (Meudon) in 2002. In 2007 his short short story "The Neoplastic Surgeon" won the on-line Entelechy: Mind and Culture Bio-fiction Prize. He currently resides in Pusan, South Korea. You can see some of his stuff on robertperchan.com.


Robert Perchan


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Eve's Sin

She found Adam's map
and thought he
was plotting to leave.

She erased every island
except Eden.

Adam came home drunk
and looked at his map.
He thought Eden
was the world.
Eve was the only
woman in it.

She was all the women
in the world
for Adam.
Every woman but
Eve.