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"In Conversation with My Art" by Ernest Williamson III
​*Between two fingers 
you expect a knot, the string 
is used to breaking its fall 

the way her shadow 
still opens the Earth 
for a last look 

follows your every move 
-even with the sun 
you wrap this small box 

are carried off 
by an icy stream 
tighter and tighter, the cover 

beginning to close, first 
as snow, years later 
over your lips already distances 

and mountain peaks taking hold 
though the mist inside 
is not the water you drink 

lets you say something 
in secret, close to the ground 
emptied out in the open.


Simon Perchik

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, Poetry, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His most recent collection is AlmostRain, published by River Otter Press (2013).  For more information, free e-books and his essay titled “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” please visit his website atwww.simonperchik.com. 

Dr. Ernest Williamson III has published poetry and/or visual art in over 500 national and international online and print journals. Many of his works have been published in journals representing over 50 colleges and universities around the world. Dr. Williamson is an Assistant Professor of English at Allen University. Professor Williamson's poetry has been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology three times.
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