Sheila Murphy

An Occupation


How about inventing

Shards to mend the lift-

Off center after central

Salve shared

Trickle flute

The color clean insisted

Upon slowly then

Dramatically tooling its way

Out of the hearsay often

Panting to be seen and found

Real as shoots of growing things

As water and the leitmotif

The shield the safe

The say-so in a crafted

Or an accidental mood



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If he chants, I'm halfway game

To try his version of salvation,

If he silences himself, I'm only steps away

From forming my divinity,

And if he sojourns into trinity,

I'll weigh whatever I have weighed

Before, I'll traipse out of my comfort bed

And seam the foibles left to me,

I'll roil gridiron back to habitat,

I'll salt the wheels and vest

My said indulgence in

Long-range entry into

Spatial heaven, trial seeds,

Resplendent cornucopia

Of truce weeds over sheaths

Lake steaming any given morning



Satis-face


It wasn't shield.

It wasn't quite the shadow

Equally it wasn't any offhand

Accent left in speech

It was the inference that nearly

Woke the chafed dead

Lumber in the yard,

Car parts, withheld

Evidence, the eminence

It was the cleats the shards

The sediment it was commingled

Debt it was having in common

So little severance from evidence

It was the past in particles

Abandoned though still

Hovering

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