Monday, January 13, 2003
The Supreme Moment Comments
Rating: ★3.5
As an ant is powerless
Against a raised boot,
And only has an instant
To have a bright idea or two.
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Charles Simic
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7/23/2025 9:04:56 AM # 1.0.0
Not unlike the anatomical errors in Joyce's 'Trees', the image is fallacious and self contradictory - a raised boot wil show a sole to a small creature threatened by it, not any part of the boot in which that creature could see its own reflection. This kind of error destroys the very essence of the poem.