Past-Lives Therapy By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
They explained to me the bloody bandages On the floor in the maternity ward in Rochester, N.Y., Cured the backache I acquired bowing to my old master,...
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October Arriving By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
Nevertheless, unable to decide He retraces his steps Several times and finds himself On a huge blank wall That has no window.
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Watch Repair By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
Higher than that Number 12 presides Like a beekeeper Over the swarming honeycomb Of the open watch.
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Empire of Dreams By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
On the first page of my dreambook It’s always evening In an occupied country.
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Tapestry By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
In one corner the snow falling over a charging cavalry, in another women are planting rice. You can also see: a chicken carried off by a fox, a naked ...
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Concerning My Neighbors, the Hittites By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
Their dogs bury themselves and leave the bones To guard the house. Their fathers are in cradles, their newborn make war. Strike two tears to make fire...
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Prodigy By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
A retired professor of astronomy taught me how to play. In chess, too, the professor told me, the masters play blindfolded, the great ones on several ...
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Eyes Fastened with Pins By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
Death, Meanwhile, in a strange Part of town looking for Someone with a bad cough, But the address is somehow wrong, Even death can’t figure it out Amo...
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Old Couple By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
Tonight they watch the window Without exchanging a word. If their window stays dark, I know his hand has reached hers Just as she was about to turn on...
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Fork By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
This strange thing must have crept Right out of hell. It resembles a bird’s foot Worn around the cannibal’s neck. As you hold it in your hand, As you...
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Charon’s Cosmology By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
With only his dim lantern??? To tell him where he is And every time a mountain??? Of fresh corpses to load up Take them to the other side Where there...
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My Shoes By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
Shoes, secret face of my inner life: Two gaping toothless mouths, Two partly decomposed animal skins Smelling of mice nests.
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