Author | Simon Perchik
Splash is how this stone
remembers squeezing your hand
then letting go, covers the ground
with seawater though you
can’t taste the salt
and inside each embrace
the first thunderclap and shrug
no longer dries, your shoulders
falling now as loneliness
then sand –you listen
the way all marble is crushed
drowns from the same gesture
that takes you arm in arm
bathes you tighter and tighter
for pebbles and caring.
About the Author | Simon Perchik‘s latest book is titled The Osiris Poems (Boxofchalk Press).