Tag: Jack Gilbert

There’s a little too much

I haven’t posted in SO long, that guilt is like a puppy that won’t leave me alone (and I don’t really like puppies that much). So this poem I’m working on is here to say some stuff–at first I thought, I shouldn’t post this thing I’m working on, what if someone reads it and sends…
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Imagining

I’m still swimming deep against the current of a deadline and trying to tread water through all the ordinary things and then moving against the waves of extra things that I add, because who am I to pass up an opportunity? I tell myself these things that cost the present pay off in the future.…
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Insisting Upon Delight

It was a crying-in-the-emergency-room/on-the-phone-with-the-pediatrician kind of week. And simultaneously, it was a friends & PBR on the balcony, snorting laughter, visiting babies on the couch, hike in the rain with people I love more all the time, and reading National Geographic aloud to my littlest homie. It all coexists, it is all simultaneous. It was also my…
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