”Hopkins described a line of fir trees as ’melodious’ and the long shoulder of a hill as a ’slow tune.’ Melodies are where gestalt epistemology started; they are paradigmatic examples of gestalts.” Jan Zwicky, The Experience of Meaning (2019), 55.
I see beautiful
things and wonder if I’m meant
to. My dozing cat.
It becomes about
me— I must change my life, lose
my point of view, be
other. Short of that,
life has melodies that will
shape us if we sing.
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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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