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Simon Perchik
This battered window box
has found an opening
–with a single flower
is taking on the sun
though you use well water
fitting it into its shadow
as if madness needs a corner
for its darkness reaching out
the way your heart was filled
with river noise
that has nothing left to give
–what you hear is the sun
swallowing ice as the antidote
to flower after flower and the mist
from someone breathing.
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