It’s subtle but these two stanzas from each poem rhyme to my ear.
Mark Strand from “The Man in the Mirror”
You didn’t care,
standing still while flies
collected in your hair
and dust fell like a screen before your eyes.
You never spoke
or tried to come up close.
Why did I want so badly
to get through to you?
Charles Simic from The World Doesn’t End
The dictionary said you were a sign indicating an omission; then it changed the subject abruptly and spoke of “asterisms,” which supposedly have to do with crystals showing a starlike luminous figure.
You didn’t believe a word of it. The question marks had valentines carved on their trunks so you wouldn’t look up and notice the ropes.
“You didn’t care” and “You didn’t believe a word of it” are of different breaths, with different tones and contexts, but I can’t think of one without the other. Strange the associations we attach. They often make sense only to ourselves.
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