from The World Doesn't End

by Charles Simic
p. 438

What first stands out about this poem is it's form: it doesn't look like a "traditional" poem, but regular prose. The title implies it's from a volume, but it's interesting that it was put in this anthology. The two "paragraphs" are also separated by a break with a dot, not normally seen. After first glance, this poem remains very interesting with it's dark imagery and great metaphors. This is one of the darkest poems I've ever read; in fact it's pretty scary and spooky. The imagery in this poem sounds like a nightmare to me. It finally ends in an extremely sad disappointment. And what makes it even more fantastic is that the disappointment is in you, the reader, so you feel exactly what the poet is trying to say.