tags: Cabbage, Charles Simic, poetry, National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month, and I plan to post one poem per day every day this month (If you have a favorite poem that you'd like me to share, feel free to email it to me). My poetry suggestions are starting to run dry, which means I can start posting my own favorites (but you've seen many of those already) or you can send me your favorite poems, which I probably haven't read before! Today's poem was suggested by a reader, Digital Cuttlefish, who writes; "Another poet, perhaps known to you, that I only recently (I blush to admit) discovered, but have immediately fallen for, is the new Poet Laureate of the U.S., Charles Simic. On poets.org there are some audiorecordings of him reading a few ("in the library" is particularly nice [1:13]), and other of his poems can be found here and there. [ ... ] I will leave you with a favorite."

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