”To what is universal in the intimacy—the love of God of finitude, a love beyond all finitude. … The transcending can be from the superiority of the transpersonal to the interiority of the personal.” Desmond, GODSENDS (2021), 173.
work-in-progress
Now my ears compose
a world of resonance as
my once bright eyes dim.
A dead leaf crosses
my path, scribbling madly
as it’s blown away.
I hear the deep sigh
of the tide returning to
the vast Atlantic.
My old eyes give way
to a less particular, no
less personal world.
Night. The cat’s purring,
sometimes the scream of a gull.
To the edge of dawn.
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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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