The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert

The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert

Author:Jack Gilbert [Gilbert, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-76087-6
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2020-12-30T16:00:00+00:00


HARD WIRED

He is shamelessly happy to feel the thing

inside him. He labors up through the pines

with firewood and goes back down again.

Winter on the way. Roses and blackberries

finished, and the iris gone before that.

The peas dead in the garden and the beans

almost done. His tomatoes are finally ripe.

The thing is inside him like that, and will

come back. An old thing, a dangerous one.

Precious to him. He meets the raccoon often

in the dark and ends up throwing stones.

The raccoon gets behind a tree. Comes again,

cautious and fierce. It stops halfway.

They stand glaring in the faint starlight.



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