Poem-A-Day: On this Very Street in Belgrade by Charles Simic

On this Very Street in Belgrade by Charles Simic   Your mother carried you Out of the smoking ruins of a building And set you down on this sidewalk Like a doll bundled in burnt rags, Where you now stood years later Talking to a homeless dog, Half-hidden behind a parked car, His eyes brimming with hope As he inched forward, ready for the worst.       Copyright © 2013 by Charles Simic. Used with permission of the author. Poetry by Simic  New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012   Poem-A-Day launched in 2006 and features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day archive.   Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org. April 8, 2013    Charles Simic is the author of  numerous books of poetry  including, New and Selected   Poems: 1962-2012 (Houghton  Mifflin Harcourt, 2013). Simic   is a  former  U.S. Poet Laureate   and  Chancellor  of the Academy   of  American Poets. He lives in  New  Hampshire. Related Poems The Two by Philip Levine Why Regret? by Galway Kinnell Stillbirth by Laure-Anne Bosselaar

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