I stare at the street
darkly visible in the
rain. My coffee’s cold.
What we call thinking
as opposed to experience
is mostly waiting.
I snap out of it.
Such dialectics won’t do.
The door of the dark
opens from the out-
side. Just knock—-politely. No
experience required.
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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. 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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