Potential Titles: Charles Simic

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An altar dignifying the god of chance - Charles Simic "The Altar"

The red stain on the ceiling - Charles Simic "At the Vacancy Sign"

Happiness in an imagined world - Charles Simic "At the Vacancy Sign"

And the hour fugitive - Charles Simic "At the Vacancy Sign"

Jealous of the present moment - Charles Simic "The Betrothal"

Bleeding in its branches - Charles Simic "A Book Full of Pictures"

Called for the evening to come - Charles Simic "The Book of Magic"

See better with eyes closed - Charles Simic "Caged Fortuneteller"

Whispering the glorious proofs - Charles Simic "The Chair"

Sleepwalkers dressed as soldiers - Charles Simic "Childhood Story"

The intricate Steps of pickpockets - Charles Simic "Classic Ballroom Dances"

Nights of an eternal November - Charles Simic "Classic Ballroom Dances"

Whispering to the spirits - Charles Simic "Early Morning in July"

Troubled like a strange dream - Charles Simic "Evening Talk"

Light of some other evening - Charles Simic "Evening Walk"

The night writing in its diary - Charles Simic "Factory"

Twisted in a peculiar way and fallen in an unlikely place - Charles Simic "First Thing in the Morning"

A black thread before the mystery - Charles Simic "First Thing in the Morning"

Favored by doomsday prophets - Charles Simic "Fourteenth Street Poem"

Crows circling over my head - Charles Simic "Heights of Folly"

Gracious invitation - Charles Simic "Heights of Folly"

Still in hiding, holding their breaths - Charles Simic "Hide and Seek"

Familiar faces in those of strangers - Charles Simic "Hide and Seek"

Met an army of gray days - Charles Simic "The Immortal"

Perfectly alone and anonymous - Charles Simic "The Immortal"

Huddled in dark unopened books - Charles Simic "In the Library"

As plentiful as species of flies - Charles Simic "In the Library"

The hour ruled by destiny - Charles Simic "The Infinite"

Auspicious to chance meetings - Charles Simic "The Infinite"

With love screaming - Charles Simic "The Infinite"

One of death's juggling red balls - Charles Simic "The Initiate"

Some unknown penitent guiding me - Charles Simic "The Initiate"

A soapbox famous for its speeches - Charles Simic "Le Beau Monde"

An infinity of tragic shapes - Charles Simic "A Letter"

A Sunday kind of quiet - Charles Simic "The Little Pins of Memory"

The wine of eternal ambiguities - Charles Simic "Makers of Labyrinths"

Our misfortunes are builders - Charles Simic "Makers of Labyrinths"

My heart's only burnt match - Charles Simic "Makers of Labyrinths"

Because memory makes you hungry - Charles Simic "Marina's Epic"

Before the shadows converge - Charles Simic "Matches"

Likes only abandoned games - Charles Simic "Matches"

Death's new ribbon in its hair - Charles Simic "Mrs. Digby's Picture Album"

Village of endless disappointments - Charles Simic "Mrs. Digby's Picture Album"

The traffic of crows - Charles Simic "My Quarrel with the Infinite"

Eternity eavesdropping on time - Charles Simic "The Old World"

A beggar claimed to be playing Nero's fiddle - Charles Simic "Paradise"

Wielded the scissors of fate - Charles Simic "Paradise"

Like meeting a couple of sphinxes - Charles Simic "Paradise"

Its secret in the slippery wheels - Charles Simic "The Pieces of the Clock Lie Scattered"

The place of vanishings - Charles Simic "Quick Eats"

Whisper your name alike - Charles Simic "Quick Eats"

Spreading its arms like a scarecrow - Charles Simic "The Scarecrow"

Poet of the dead leaves - Charles Simic "Shelley"

Of a desert peopled by storms - Charles Simic "Shelley"

Strewn with broken umbrellas - Charles Simic "Shelley"

My death already consummated - Charles Simic "Story of My Luck"

Love and fate crossed out - Charles Simic "Story of My Luck"

Surrounding your severe presence - Charles Simic "Stub of a Red Pencil"

Except for my long shadow - Charles Simic "The Tiger"

Clock talking to a clock - Charles Simic "The Wail"

Entering the crypts of kings - Charles Simic "Windy Evening"

Smart chickens, rickety world - Charles Simic "Windy Evening"

Eyes full of the sky's terror - Charles Simic "Winter Sunset"

The map of ancient Rome in your pocket - Charles Simic "A Word"


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