It was first a parade and your heart
Rent from DeepDyve- It was first a parade and your heart
It was first a parade and your heartfacing forward, covered with medalsflags and flowers huddled inside
called up: this graveyard was builtfrom the light that comes on footand no longer moves, is dressed
in the same uniform its dead wearthough the small stones you leavehave not yet fallen out the shoe
with a hole in it, stay in placeat attention, wait to go alongbring grass, afternoons, begin to walk. [End Page 96]
Simon Perchik
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, Forge, Prairie Schooner, Osiris, The New Yorker and elsewhere. His most recent collection is The Osiris Poems (box of chalk). Visit www.simonperchik.com.
