Arsenic Lobster poetry journal
Issue Nine
Winter 2005
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Held taut and its wires
Simon Perchik

Held taut and its wires
already invisible --you trip
and the radio rears up

stumbles, takes a bow
half puppet show, half
some hole in a dead tree

--you bait the radio :a Mozart tape
that lures even trees
--out in the open and they obey

do what music says, led
by a violin held up
the way smoke is told to face downwind

and the children form a single line
as if they were still giggling
--how restful it is to saw

and no one says a word
or smoothes back the fine hairs
inside these twisted branches.


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