”Not, as Eliot would have it, the articulate raiding the inarticulate, but the other way around: wordless thought using words for its own ends.” Jan Zwicky, The Experience of Meaning (2019), 168 f.
The appointed hour.
I’ve written something each day
since you died, something
you’d enjoy reading.
Two middle-aged radicals
with sex and the moon
in the bedroom win-
dow sharing our attention.
We’d never grow old.
The whole of you once
again with this difference—
the light unbroken.
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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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