”Or, as Robert Bringhurst has noted, you can walk the path where seizures have been known to occur, but you can’t make poetry happen to you.” Jan Zwicky, The Experience of Meaning, 31.
work-in-progress
Above timberline
as a child I learned to sit
as still as a stone.
I imagined wild
things would take me for granted,
a kind of nothing.
A one-way conver-
sation. The wild expresses
itself without words.
A lizard breathing
on the granite outcrop made
me so self-conscious.
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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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