In his great text on
water, sublime unruly
stuff, Jaccottet on
Holderlin on swans
dipping their heads in a calm
lake, the birds calm too.
To be all too wise!
Here where liberty took root
black lives matter more
than ever. Today
I watch an incandescent
egret stab the mud.
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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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