WORK IN PROGRESS
“To make way for the other is to create an opening for freedom that is not for oneself, though in that opening one is fully there for whatever may eventuate along the way.” William Desmond, quoted by Morisato, Faith and Reason, 124.
I have met others
on my summer rambles through
the estuary.
Village gardeners
wave over their bent shoulders
and beds of iris.
From time to time glints
of ocean shine through the hedges.
Heaven and earth one.
I follow Basho
following Zhuangzi: forget
your self on the way.
I have met others
as I get home: the coolness
in the shuttered house.
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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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