Two or three bicy-
clers woosh up Broad Street tonight
in patchy fog. Road,
body, and machine
disappear together in
one sound. In Sempé’s
New Yorker cover
lovers are slow riding and
almost crashing but
not. Gravity saves
all of us as we enjoy
the rainbow city.
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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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