Foothills full of gold
poppies. Say ‘Mojave!’ Not just
immensely empty,
a bigger sky, and
at night the intimacy
of the swaying stars.
And on long summer
afternoons a big rock con-
cert of cicada,
rising and falling
like a Grateful Dead anthem.
The infinite loves
the finite. I grew
up and moved away. Haiku
won’t let me forget.
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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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