Summer dusk. Children’s
cries sharpen the softer air
in which we stayed out
beyond bedtime. I
turn on the lamp: being is
pathological,
Aeschylus? Meaning,
wisdom happens to you. We
are all children at
bedtime in summer.
We are the toys of Wisdom,
between day and night.
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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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