The D Poems

And though your shadow still broods
the camera is used to not knowing
how near you are, following\naimless and alongside a crater
that is neither the center
nor the sky your eye remembers\nis already shut, measuring
what comes out, what didn't
—you don't have to group anything\nor anymore—there's no film
it's missing, stars are missing
today is missing, the ground is missing.\nBio:
Simon Perchik, an attorney, was born 1923 in Paterson, NJ and educated at New York Univer-sity (BA English, LLB Law). His poems have appeared in various literary journals including Partisan Review, Poetry, The Nation, and The New Yorker.
The 183 poems in this collection would never have been written except for the synaesthesis created from the 183 photographs from the book, Documentary Photography: Time Life Library of Photography to inspire and guide the author.-Simon Perchik