Jack Gilbert Rain Poems
- 1. South
In the small towns along the river
nothing happens day after long day.
Summer weeks stalled forever,
and long marriages always the same.
... - 2. Rain
Suddenly this defeat.
This rain.
The blues gone gray
And the browns gone gray
... - 3. 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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