Care & Feeding

Cut cucumbers in half, scrape out regret. Cut halves diagonally. Add hunger, vinegar, sugar & mint. Stir. Let stand at room temperature 1 hr., explore existential angst as needed. Serve chilled, with rapturous longing.

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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 isĀ Almost Rain, published by River Otter Press (2013).   You lean against her thigh as if this gravestone no longer smells from grass longs for a dry riverbed not sure […]

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