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“You Don’t Know Jack!”: Jack Gilbert and Me
“This book has traveled with me for over twenty years. It has gotten me through three different moves, four pet deaths, and one marriage.”
My wife would see the bird by itself, that bird always by itself. And she’d say, “Look, a gray heron.” I’d see the bird she was talking about. Maybe we’d be driving down the long driveway that leads to my parents’ house, which sits on a lake, and the bird would be standing watch on the point, looking out at the flatness of the water, keeping a vigil unto itself….