A summer day, high
tide of birdsong, names unknown,
immaterial.
I’m dazed by excess.
Cold shock of the Pacific
up to my knees, a
boy on vacation.
Grip of Eros or embrace
of death, I panicked.
No wiser now, mind-
full of Solstice and the birds’
scheduled departures.
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Tom D'Evelyn is a private editor and writing tutor in Cranston RI and, thanks to the web, across the US and in the UK. 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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