The Salt

<p><strong>Peter Schireson’s The Salt is a chapbook of 21 poems which touch on a wide range of subjects including romantic love the nature of the self aging and loss.</strong></p><p>Self-Portrait with Tree</p><p>I want to have you</p><p>I murmur</p><p>to the photograph in an airport</p><p>of a tree on a ridge</p><p>its frail silver gelatin silhouette</p><p>leaning against a bright sky.</p><p>The shadow hovering</p><p>at the edge of the frame</p><p>must be me.</p><p> </p><p> </p>