When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of th — Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
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When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

— Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
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