"Only brooms
Know the devil
Still exists,
That the snow grows whiter
After a crow has flown over it,"
Charles Simic (b. 1938), Yugoslav-U.S. poet. Brooms (l. 1-5). . .
American Poetry Anthology, The. Daniel Halpern, ed. (1975) Avon Books. |
"And then finally there's your grandmother
Sweeping the dust of the nineteenth century
Into the twentieth, and your grandfather plucking
A straw out of the broom to pick his teeth."
Charles Simic (b. 1938), Yugoslav-U.S. poet. Brooms (l. 55-58). . .
American Poetry Anthology, The. Daniel Halpern, ed. (1975) Avon Books. |
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