Author: Wally Lamb
Cites
- Adrienne Rich (1)
- IN: We Are Water (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: You see a man
trying to think.
You want to say
to everything:
Keep off! Give him room!
But you only watch,
terried
the old consolations
will get him at last
like a fish
half-dead from flopping
and almost crawling
across the shingle,
almost breathing
the raw, agonizing
air
till a wave
pulls it back blind into the triumphant
sea.
FROM: Ghost of a Chance, (1993), Poem, US