”In the between we are thrown down, but also thrown above, being thrown above the between. Hence the suggestion that the hyperboles communicate more than the terms of immanence can circumscribe.” William Desmond, The Voiding of Being (2020), XXX
work-in-progress
The impossible
blue of the Bay this winter
day, the purity
of the bottom of
a flame. Nobody out to
see gold-tipped cord grass,
ducks in the distance.
Light a match and you
will see this blue, but not
the inscape of cold,
not cloudless skies o-
pen to depths of ultramarine
hyperbolic blue.
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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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