”We cannot get up in the morning and will love.
But we can get up in the morning and will attitudes that dispose us to love.
Postures of openness, of attention.”
Jan Zwicky, Alkibiades’ Love, p. 283.
The reason I walk
to the cove and back each day
is irrational.
Not to stretch my limbs,
or see new varieties
of birds or empty
my brain of data.
These fine things sometimes happen
without me trying.
The reason I walk
is why I write poems: I
like to be surprised.
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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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