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| Charles Simic |
Charles Simic was born on May 9, 1938, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In 1953 he
emigrated to the United States. Since 1967 he has published more than sixty books in the U.S. and abroad, including Selected Poems: 1963-2003 (2004), for which he received the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize...
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by Charles Simic |
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Of the light in my room:
Its mood swings,
Dark-morning glooms,
Summer ecstasies.
Spider on the wall,
Lamp burning late,
Shoes left by the bed,
I'm your humble scribe.
Dust balls, simple souls
Conferring in the corner.
The pearl earring she lost,
Still to be found.
Silence of falling snow,
Night vanishing without trace,
Only to return.
I'm your humble scribe.
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From That Little Something by Charles Simic. Copyright © 2008 by Charles Simic. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt. All rights reserved. |
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