Charles simic

With only his dim lantern

Charles Simic

"The world is beautiful, but not sayable. That's why we need art..." ~ Charles Simic

August 1990 | Dannie Abse, Randy Blasing, Marianne Boruch, Billy Collins, Alfred Corn, John Dickson, Richard Foerster, James Merrill, Isabel Nathaniel, D. Nurkse, F. Reeve, David Rivard, Reg Saner, Charles Simic, Stephen Stepanchev, Michael Waters, Theodore Worozbyt, Carolyne Wright, Paul Breslin

for Octavio There's a book called "A Dictionary of Angels." No one has opened it in fifty years, I know, because when I did, The covers creaked, the pages Crumbled. There I discovered The angels were once as plentiful As species of flies. The sky at dusk Used to be thick with them. You had to wave both arms Just to keep them away. Now the sun is shining Through the tall windows. The library is a quiet place. Angels and gods huddled In dark unopened books. The great secret lies On some shelf…

inside my empty bottle i was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

In memory we are standing in the kitchen of the Treman Cottage at Breadloaf. It is late afternoon in the summer of 1976 and I have brought my copies of Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk and …

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