Woke up suddenly thinking I heard crying.
Rushed through the dark house.
Stopped, remembering. Stood looking
out at bright moonlight on concrete.


Anonymous submission.

(C) Jack Gilbert
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Jack Gilbert

• Rain
• Divorce
• The Abnormal Is Not Courage
• In Umbria
• Recovering Amid The Farms
• The Mistake
• Tear It Down
• Failing And Flying
• A Brief For The Defense
• In Dispraise Of Poetry
• South
• Horses At Midnight Without A Moon
• The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart
• Portrait Number Five: Against A New York Summer
• The Great Fires
• Searching For Pittsburgh
• Going There
• Summer At Blue Creek, North Carolina