Times Square

Not far from
the Port Au-
thority then.

   

                     .. I worried that a great
       love might make everything else an exile.
       It turned out that being together
       at twilight in the olive groves of Umbria
       did, indeed, measure everything after that.

      

 






















Jack Gilbert
The Dance Most of All
  Poems
  Living Hungry After
  [fragment]
Alfred A. Knopf, 2010©
op. cit.

Louis Stettner
Times Square
1952