Hotel Insomnia (Charles Simic Poems)
I liked my little hole, Its window facing a brick wall. Next door there was a piano. A few evenings ...
Charles Simic Poems (32 Poems)
How To Psalmodize (Charles Simic Poems)
1. The Poet Someone awake when others are sleeping, Asleep when others are awake. An illiterate who signs everything with ...
Talking To Little Birdies (Charles Simic Poems)
Not a peep out of you now After the bedlam early this morning. Are you begging pardon of me Hidden ...
This Morning (Charles Simic Poems)
Enter without knocking, hard-working ant. I'm just sitting here mulling over What to do this dark, overcast day? It was ...
The Wooden Toy (Charles Simic Poems)
1 The brightly-painted horse Had a boy's face, And four small wheels Under his feet, Plus a long string To ...
The Something (Charles Simic Poems)
Here come my night thoughts On crutches, Returning from studying the heavens. What they thought about Stayed the same, Stayed ...
Against Winter (Charles Simic Poems)
The truth is dark under your eyelids. What are you going to do about it? The birds are silent; there's ...
Paradise Motel (Charles Simic Poems)
Millions were dead; everybody was innocent. I stayed in my room. The President Spoke of war as of a magic ...
Summer In The Country (Charles Simic Poems)
One shows me how to lie down in a field of clover. Another how to slip my hand under her ...
A Book Full of Pictures (Charles Simic Poems)
Father studied theology through the mail And this was exam time. Mother knitted. I sat quietly with a book Full ...
Read Your Fate (Charles Simic Poems)
A world's disappearing. Little street, You were too narrow, Too much in the shade already. You had only one dog, ...
The White Room (Charles Simic Poems)
The obvious is difficult To prove. Many prefer The hidden. I did, too. I listened to the trees. They had ...
Mummy’s Curse (Charles Simic Poems)
Befriending an eccentric young woman The sole resident of a secluded Victorian mansion. She takes long walks in the evening ...
The Initiate (Charles Simic Poems)
St. John of the Cross wore dark glasses As he passed me on the street. St. Theresa of Avila, beautiful ...
White (Charles Simic Poems)
A New Version: 1980 What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Walt Whitman One Out ...
Country Fair (Charles Simic Poems)
for Hayden Carruth If you didn't see the six-legged dog, It doesn't matter. We did, and he mostly lay in ...
Watermelons (Charles Simic Poems)
Green Buddhas On the fruit stand. We eat the smile And spit out the teeth. (Charles Simic)
Poem Without A Title (Charles Simic Poems)
I say to the lead Why did you let yourself Be cast into a bullet? Have you forgotten the alchemists? ...
The Oldest Child (Charles Simic Poems)
The night still frightens you. You know it is interminable And of vast, unimaginable dimensions. "That's because His insomnia is ...
The Partial Explanation (Charles Simic Poems)
Seems like a long time Since the waiter took my order. Grimy little luncheonette, The snow falling outside. Seems like ...
Errata (Charles Simic Poems)
Where it says snow read teeth-marks of a virgin Where it says knife read you passed through my bones like ...
Wherein Obscurely (Charles Simic Poems)
On the road with billowing poplars, In a country flat and desolate To the far-off gray horizon, wherein obscurely, A ...
The School Of Metaphysics (Charles Simic Poems)
Executioner happy to explain How his wristwatch works As he shadows me on the street. I call him that because ...
Private Eye (Charles Simic Poems)
To find clues where there are none, That's my job now, I said to the Dictionary on my desk. The ...
Eyes Fastened With Pins (Charles Simic Poems)
How much death works, No one knows what a long Day he puts in. The little Wife always alone Ironing ...
The Bather (Charles Simic Poems)
Where the path to the lake twists out of sight, A puff of dust, the kind bare feet make running, ...
Heights Of Folly (Charles Simic Poems)
O crows circling over my head and cawing! I admit to being, at times, Suddenly, and without the slightest warning, ...
Inner Man (Charles Simic Poems)
It isn't the body That's a stranger. It's someone else. We poke the same Ugly mug At the world. When ...
The Supreme Moment (Charles Simic Poems)
As an ant is powerless Against a raised boot, And only has an instant To have a bright idea or ...
Coal (Charles Simic Poems)
Dismembered angel In whose heart the earth is still on fire, The moon still has not been split-off; Here is ...