”As creatures of the edge, if we want to get closer to the wild, we have to come to it alone …” Robert Bringhurst Learning to Die: Wisdom in the Age of Climate Change (with Jan Zwicky; 2018)
Absently I walk
into the gutturals of
Canadian geese
in the grass above
high tide. They go silent, stare
me down. I back off.
An infinite look
crosses the Autumn threshold.
The silence deepens.
.
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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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