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PIETY by CHARLES SIMIC

Poet Analysis

First Line: A PLAIN BLACK COTTON DRESS
Last Line: IF YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES, %THERE'S EVEN A TINY RIP %ON THE LEVEL OF THIGHS, %THE CURLICUE OF BLACKEST
Subject(s): PIETY;

Poem Sources:

UNENDING BLUES.
  SIMIC, CHARLES
  (1986)
 
SELECTED POEMS 1963-1983.
  SIMIC, CHARLES
  (1990)
 



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