Jack Gilbert’s “Convalescing” (Collected Poems, New York: Knopf, 2012, p. 384), which Elizabeth Traugott passed on to me after reading a fascinating obit for Gilbert in the NYT: I spend the days deciding On a commemorative poem. Not, luckily, an epitaph. A quiet poem to establish the fact of me. As one of the incidental … Continue reading Thanksgiving poem