Thursday, September 1, 2022

What a fantastic poem: ALBA by Jack Gilbert

 ALBA


After a summer with happy people

I rush back, scared, gulping 

down pain wherever I can get it.  

                                                                                Jack Gilbert (from Monolithos)

                                                                      Art: Gabriela Popa

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