SIMON PERCHIK
Even before you touch
Even before you touch
it has lift, rushes more air
over one hand and not the other
though once at the controls
spin is what you cling to
letting the knob drag the door
the way moonlight never leaves
has nothing to do with skies
closing in on each other
half rivers, half mountainsides, half
whatever you hold in your arms
is stone, counts the turns and when.
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, Poetry, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His latest collection Almost Rain was 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. (simon@hamptons.com )