Today’s lectio:
‘Old age yields to slackness in
the tuning of the
surface of things.’ Slack
the beauty of Les Murray’s
hospitable line:
Yes, I yield to that.
Promiscuity is grace
in an old man’s eyes.
We take it as it
comes. It soon goes. The quick smile
fades, softens, moistens,
embarrassed. Easy
come, easy go—-so dilate
the gifts of pleasure.
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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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