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You button this shirt


10.21.16 Posted in today's words by

Simon Perchik’s most recent poem to appear here was “even in the dark” (September 2016) 

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You button this shirt
the way doves break free
and the magician bows

—begin by reaching in
though the applause even now
is darkening on a calendar

that has no mornings
no secret place was saved
for the sleeve half fleece

half dripping oil—your sweat
louder and louder
covered with rain from the ’40s.

 



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