Fork
Fork - Charles Simic
Fork
This strange thing must have crept
Right out of hell.
It resembles a bird’s foot
Worn around the cannibal’s neck.
As you hold it in your hand,
As you stab with it into a piece of meat,
It is possible to imagine the rest of the bird:
Its head which like your fist
Is large, bald, beakless, and blind.
from Selected Early Poems (Braziller, USA, 1985), copyright © Charles Simic 1985, used by permission of the author and the publisher.