A spicy #poem for Tuesday. Jack Gilbert is dear to my heart. He was born in Pittsburgh, but left. I included a poem of his in a letter to my sister after she passed away— I displayed it at the funeral home. This is another poem “A Fact”

“The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand.” #JackGilbert