NEAR PROVIDENCE 24.4.22

WORK IN PROGRESS
The world can save us—Wong May

What is grief’s other?

I walk and walk and walk. I

pass the sunning ducks,

green or emerald

where they float. I pass the Bay,

cold cobalt toward

sundown. Your colors,

we’d say. Now the world’s colors.

Grief returns the world.

Your colors endure,

walk after walk. The emptiness

you left fills with them.

Author: Tom D'Evelyn

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. View all posts by Tom D'Evelyn

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