Poems by Charles Simic
To The One Upstairs
... Stop pretending you're too busy to take notice ...
How To Psalmodize
... 1. The PoetSomeone awake when others are sleeping, ...
Fork
... It is possible to imagine the rest of the bird: ...
Charon’s Cosmology
... In one a crust of bread in another a sausage ...
Empire of Dreams
... For a black dog who answers to my whistle ...
The Friends of Heraclitus
... You found yourselves in strange neighborhoods ...
Tapestry
... They’ll shave his beard, nose, ears, and hair, ...
The Melon
... I remember a hornet, too, that flew in ...
Past-Lives Therapy
... Y., Cured the backache I acquired bowing to my old master, ...
Puppet-Maker
... On this street of darkened pawnshops, ...
“I am the last . . .”
... It’s almost two hundred years later and I am still retreating from Moscow ...
My Shoes
... Kin to oxen, to Saints, to condemned men, ...
Old Couple
... They’ll be carried off in stretchers, howling ...
Mirrors at 4 a.m.
... As they admire themselves in the mirror, ...
Watch Repair
... Tools That must be splinters ...
