Watermelons

Green Buddhas

On the fruit stand.

We eat the smile

And spit out the teeth.

MARGINALIA

I can’t believe I haven’t posted this before. One of my favourite works by Charles Simic.

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This poem appeared in    Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk  by Charles Simic  , published by George Braziller, 1974. (Available on:  Amazon  •  Bookshop )

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“Poems search for the spiritual essence of everyday emotional and physical experiences.” ( Source )

ABOUT CHARLES SIMIC

Charles Simic is widely recognized as one of the most visceral and unique poets writing today. His work has won numerous awards, among them the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the appointment as US poet laureate. Simic’s first poems were published in 1959, when he was 21. His first full-length collection of poems,    What the Grass Says   , was published in 1967. His book of prose poems,    The  …  (more)

Charles Simic is widely recognized as one of the most visceral and unique poets writing today. His work has won numerous awards, among them the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the appointment as US poet laureate. Simic’s first poems were published in 1959, when he was 21. His first full-length collection of poems,    What the Grass Says   , was published in 1967. His book of prose poems,    The World Doesn’t End   , won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1990 and   Jackstraws   (1999) was a New York Times Notable Book of the year. ( Source )

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