CarrollBlog 9.12

LIVING HUNGRY AFTER

By Jack Gilbert

The water nymphs who came to Poseidon

Explained how little they desired to couple

With the gods. Except to find out

whether it was different, whether there was

a fresh world, another dimension in their loins.

In the old Pittsburgh we dreamed of a city

where women read Proust in the original French

and wondered whether we would cross over

into a different joy if we paid a call girl

a thousand dollars for a night. Or an hour.

Would it be different in kind o...