jack gilbert

     If the locomotive of the Lord runs us down,
we should give thanks that the end had magnitude.

          Jack Gilbert, A Brief For The Defense
         in "THE GREAT FIRES", poems 1982 - 1992

jack gilbert / finding something

Michiko is dying in the house behind me,

..........

The arches of her feet are like voices
of children calling in the grove of lemon trees,
where my heart is as helpless as crushed birds.


          FINDING SOMETHING, 
          in THE GREAT FIRES, poems 1982-1992
                                         by JACK GILBERT