It’s official:
we live in catastrophic times.
The news can’t shock us.
We spend time alone.
We make peace with Nothingness—
not mindless but mind-
ful of otherness:
that just this stranger now and
again says hello.
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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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I continue to be amazed when someone glancing in my direction appears to be really there & confirms my suspicion in the most subtle of ways.
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