A time of waiting.
Tree cutters have opened space
where the snow will fall.
A surplus of light.
What was it like before time?
Well, nothing happened
before time. Each leaf
and snowflake comes to be with
us and all likeness.
With patience we find
in gravity’s gift a grace
from the beginning.
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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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