Tom D'Evelyn

Two Haiku

It’s the first of Spring.

An ant discovers the page.

I forget the verse.

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A whole cloudy sky

Of underdetermined light

Empties my blank page

Born in Bakersfield, California, in 1947, Thomas D'Evelyn absorbed the abyssal beauty of the desert for his first sixteen years. Then to the Bay Area—Berkeley (PhD CompLit) and a life in books—editing, reviewing, promoting. Now he is retired in Rhode Island, the ocean his desert landscape/abyss. His attachment to Zen haiku reflects his apophatic orientation. He blogs about lyric on X.