Watermelons by Charles Simic - Poems | Academy of American Poets

Watermelons

Green Buddhas
On the fruit stand.
We eat the smile
And spit out the teeth.

Credit

From Return to a Place Lit By a Glass of Milk, by Charles Simic. Published by George Braziller. Copyright © 1974. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Author

Charles Simic

Charles Simic — Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan

Charles Simic received the Academy Fellowship in 1998 and was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2000.

Date Published

01/01/1974