Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, Poetry, Osiris, The New Yorker and Poets’ Espresso Review. His most recent collection Almost Rain is pub-lished by River Otter Press (2013). For more information, including free e-books, and information about his essay Magic, Illusion and Other Realities please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.