Beauty of Thresholds,
you manhandled old man Yeats
raging in the dark.
Last night at the bar,
you knocked me sideways with a
brush of your softness.
I didn’t see you
on the way to the lou or
on your way back. You
come between myself
and the image I work at,
my book and my Jack.
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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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