It’s a big country.
Away at the Capitol,
news-breaks break often,
live-streamed — which is good;
people need to be informed.
All the important
words — news, inform, scan-
dal — are capital words. Take
scandal (Gk: stumblng
block.) A sparrow song,
woven in silence, live-streamed
from the hedge, makes me
stumble: Scandal of
being! Sweet perfection inform-
ing me in itself.
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Tom D'Evelyn is a private editor and writing tutor in Portland OR and, thanks to the web, across the US and in the UK. His blogs include poemswithoutborders.com He can be reached at tom.develyn@comcast.net. D'Evelyn has a PhD in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. Before retiring he held positions at The Christian Science Monitor, Harvard University Press, Boston University and Brown University. He ran a literary agency for ten years, publishing books by Leonard Nathan and Arthur Quinn, among others. Before moving to Portland OR he was managing editor at Single Island Press, Portsmouth NH. He blogs at http://tdevelyn.com and other sites.
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Love the sparrow live-streaming from the hedge. Sweet and funny!
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