Three poems by Simeon Berry
![Decide to visit the historic sanitarium with Z., despite fighting with N. about it. She had no good explanation for why her crush on him has suddenly turned to hatred. As Z. is trying to raise my spirits, a toddler wanders up beside us and points: What’s that? Her mother wearily replies: That’s a chair. She pivots: And that? A sigh: That’s a table. The child frowns: Why? Z. smiles. Miss, let me refer you to the collected works of Wittgenstein.](https://i2.wp.com/apt.aforementionedproductions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-07-at-8.24.31-PM.png?resize=198%2C373)
Simeon Berry lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. He has been an Associate Editor for Ploughshares, and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant and a Career Chapter Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters. His work has appeared in Crazyhorse, AGNI, Colorado Review, Blackbird, DIAGRAM, The Iowa Review, American Letters & Commentary, and many other journals. His first book, Ampersand Revisited, won the 2013 National Poetry Series (Fence Books), and his second book, Monograph, won the 2014 National Poetry Series (University of Georgia Press).
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