Simon Perchik’s most recent poem to appear here was “You come by as if this dirt was once” (December 2016)

This path could be its echo
clings to your exhausted cry
and once around one shoulder

climbs, covers the Earth
already those footsteps
mourners will use

follow as emptiness
and not answer anymore
or look :this path

coming back with stars
that no longer listen
over and over.