Arsenic Lobster poetry journal
Issue Nine
Winter 2005
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You make the grain stronger, add
Simon Perchik

You make the grain stronger, add
and across the varnish the way rust
brings out the wagons

lets the nails know what's what
--you coat the side door
though its breeze left years ago

half wings, half in the distance
while the sky watches horrified
when a house opens from the middle

and overhead the rain on course
--you enter the horizon
through a skylight, closer

to hammers and the evenings
--load the only moving part
with helmets, breastplates, make it

glow and under this boneweary door
the no screech spreading across
your mouth and the threshold.


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