SHARON FAIN

On Hearing Jack Gilbert Talk About Death
Fort Mason, June 1993

I know a wilderness: days washed
by moons; trees or their absence; well water;
stone; the bending down of grasses.
No god. All this. How do we ever let go?


Poems by Sharon Fain:

Snowy Owl
Getting It Right
A Birth
Waiting for the Bear
Screen Saver
Losing the Drought
Isla Mujeres: Weeks Before the Breakdown
On Hearing Jack Gilbert Talk About Death
One Month at Casa Sotovento
Out on the Deck at Sirens
Waiting to Hear About the Biopsy
Elvis at Chiang Mai
High Desert
Letters From Sarajevo
On Seeing the Place Where I First Made Love

TIMES TEN: An Anthology of Northern California Poets