Jack Gilbert Morning Poems
- 1. Tear It Down
We find out the heart only by dismantling what
the heart knows. By redefining the morning,
we find a morning that comes just after darkness.
We can break through marriage into marriage.
... - 2. Failing And Flying
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
It's the same when love comes to an end,
or the marriage fails and people say
they knew it was a mistake, that everybody
... - 3. South
In the small towns along the river
nothing happens day after long day.
Summer weeks stalled forever,
and long marriages always the same.
... - 4. The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean,
and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say,
God, we say, Rome and Michiko, we write, and the words
get it all wrong. We say bread and it means according
... - 5. Recovering Amid The Farms
Every morning the sad girl brings her three sheep
and two lambs laggardly to the top of the valley,
past my stone hut and onto the mountain to graze.
She turned twelve last year and it was legal
... - 6. The Mistake
There is always the harrowing by mortality,
the strafing by age, he thinks. Always defeats.
Sorrows come like epidemics. But we are alive
in the difficult way adults want to be alive.
... - 7. Searching For Pittsburgh
The fox pushes softly, blindly through me at night,
between the liver and the stomach. Comes to the heart
and hesitates. Considers and then goes around it.
Trying to escape the mildness of our violent world.
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Ronald Thorpe Jorgensen: Though uneven, his best are our American heights and the lucidity of the earth: The Abnormal Is Not Courage and A Brief for the Defense. I encourage other readers to welcome them into the memory of their hearts.
ronald jorgensen: Though uneven, his best are our American heights and the lucidity of the earth: "The Abnormal Is Not Courage", "A Brief for the Defense". I encourage readers to welcome them into the memory of their hearts.
