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# Evening
- URL: https://poetry101.love/evening/
- Published: 2024-01-25T05:32:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-25T05:32:42.000Z
- Description: by Charles Simic
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: Charles Simic, #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

The snail gives off stillness.  
The weed is blessed.  
At the end of a long day  
The man finds joy, the water peace.  
  
Let all be simple. Let all stand still  
Without a final direction.  
That which brings you into the world  
To take you away at death  
Is one and the same;  
The shadow long and pointy  
Is its church.  
  
At night some understand what the grass says.  
The grass knows a word or two.  
It is not much. It repeats the same word  
Again and again, but not too loudly.

Simic, Charles. [What the Grass Says: Poems](https://www.google.com/books/edition/What%5Fthe%5FGrass%5FSays/uLgeAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq=charles%20simic%20The%20man%20finds%20joy,%20the%20water%20peace.&bshm=rime/1&kptab=getbook&ref=poetry101.love). United States, Kayak Press, 1969.

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### Why I chose this poem

It's a full moon tonight, a time of release. And also, I just adore this presentation of shadow. Shadow, between birth and death, the church of life.