Charles Simić Quote

There are knives that glitter like altars
In a dark church
Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
To be healed.

There's a woden block where bones are broken,
Scraped clean--a river dried to its bed

Selected Poems, 1963-1983 (ed. George Braziller, 1990)

There are knives that glitter like altars In a dark church Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile To be healed. There's a woden block where...

There are knives that glitter like altars In a dark church Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile To be healed. There's a woden block where...

There are knives that glitter like altars In a dark church Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile To be healed. There's a woden block where...

There are knives that glitter like altars In a dark church Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile To be healed. There's a woden block where...