The Voice At 3 by Charles Simic

Author:Charles Simic [Simic, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

Shaving

Child of sorrow.

Old snotnose.

Stray scrap from the table of the gods.

Toothless monkey.

Workhorse,

Wheezing there,

Coughing too.

The trouble with you is,

Your body and soul

Don't get along well together.

Pigsty for a brain,

Stop them from making faces at each other

In the mirror!

Then, remove the silly angel wings

From your gorilla suit.

Mystics

Help me to find what I've lost,

If it was ever, however briefly, mine,

You who may have found it.

Old man praying in the privy,

Lonely child drawing a secret room

And in it a stopped clock.

Seek to convey its truth to me

By hints and omens.

The room in shadow, perhaps the wrong room?

The cockroach on the wall,

The naked lovers kissing

On the TV with the sound off.

I could hear the red faucet drip.

Or else restore to plain view

What is eternally invisible

And speaks by being silent.

Blue distances to the North,

The fires of the evening to the West,

Christ himself in pain, panhandling

On the altar of the storefront church

With a long bloody nail in each palm.

In this moment of amazement...

Since I do ask for it humbly,

Without greed, out of true need.

My teeth chattered so loudly,

My old dog got up to see what's the matter.

Oh divine lassitude, long drawn-out sigh

As the vision came and went.

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