R
it hurts not to
last I hear this
affects him differently
from me he does not speak
he hides behind
the news print former
copious ammunition dwindled
across moments
that used to own momentum
discard's more primal
now that all our life
is gardened into
what we still see
likenesses of
the lake from here
within the home
the new to
indebted | for the new
to | keyboard amplif-
this | all summer
v-s hap ed lawn ch-
and | conviv- | to wit
debrief | alongside deep bl-
lumberyard notwithst- |
her illimited misunderst-
all harbingers | erected
by the light of the |
keep sure | unwind by
hand now window | over
under | pinnings
leafed to | north
anger abyss | kiss sunken
grace notes after "spray bent" (John M. Bennett)
door bus in ess
mount ed on
stre am be es
un raveling a
fount a in seized
sub sequent to
hush ed ro a ming
f aked up on
g lands on e
if and
two if
what I thought during my summer va-
First Day
a blip of oligarchy
turned on
spit less supple than
enormous-sounding adjectives
on slick, slick s lick
p ages and en
raptured
moi the way
tall frost on
g lass dis
couraged motion
Second Day
my opponent s
lanted any way
I vaulted
the altimeter endowed
with forth
right stippling
caved as
all-the-more
retrenchment had been
s laved over
and around
and through
detente
Third Day
a volley en
sued as song
wings let
a pearl fall
into some
time water
Fourth Day
a tenet of p
reaching involuntarily
struck rock as
no one
listened in the least
Fifth Day
is this re
freshment this
mint julep colored
set of wheels
in climate confrontation
trilled to pitch
points sleek as
all new sprints
toward longitude
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| Sheila E. Murphy's book manuscript Letters to Unfinished J. was selected in this year's open poetry competition sponsored by Sun & Moon Press, and will be published by Sun & Moon. Dennis Phillips was the judge. Falling in Love Falling in Love With You Syntax: Selected and New Poems has just been released by Potes & Poets Press. Recent works include A Clove of Gender (Stride Press, 1995). Murphy's work has been widely anthologized, most recently in Fever Dreams: Contemp orary Arizona Poetry (The University of Arizona Press, 1997) and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Contemporary Poetry (Sun & Moon Press, 1994, 1995). The Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series recently brought out an autobiography of Sheila E. Murphy, including photographs of Murphy with family and friends.
Sheila Murphy co-founded with Beverly Carver and continues to coordinate the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series, now in its eleventh season. Murphy is President of the management consulting firm Sheila Murphy Associates. Since 1976, she has made Phoenix, Arizona, her home. |
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