Thursday, January 1, 2004

Portrait Number Five: Against A New York Summer Comments

Rating: 3.3

I'd walk her home after work
buying roses and talking of Bechsteins.
She was full of soul.
Her small room was gorged with heat
...
Read full text

Jack Gilbert
COMMENTS
Susan Williams 28 January 2018

My, my, my- -It is really tiresome that I and perhaps you cannot rate poems anymore because some messed up computer thingee can only respond to a vote by demanding we sign in again and again and again. Really getting tiresome. Neither can I track down the comments that notifications to my e-mail tell me about.

1 1 Reply
Susan Williams 28 January 2018

Sounds like a dull hot sweaty day alone in a room with someone else. I think I would rather be elsewhere by myself with someone still breathing... I can do this style of inverting sub-titling poetry too! I'd rate this poem but guess what?

1 1 Reply
Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Close
Error Success