For the Rinse of Co-Location in the Letter J
1.
Marigolds along my morning sidewalk
seemed to replicate themselves
the way research . . .
2.
Then in the middle of the walkspace
Was a spree triangular as three-
D corn chips shadowing these flowers
3.
He married fever and the prompt source
Of resilience in contained numbers
Rarely if ever on the threshold of an overheating
4.
Syncopation woos me after hours
Of conflagration wrist
Play's northerly rectangular precision
5.
Gourmet trust trinkets the timelines
Best left to right sizing norm on normal
Distribution if not generation after generosity
Properties of Chance
However moody you would draw this
Card for me to play to prey upon
I wouldn't last it wouldn't last
Our symptoms would corrode
Our driven balk vamonos
In purity we lord it over
Avenues in time terms glow worm
Vacuumous with paper noose
No further information
I would fume until unless
So times give crafted ammunition
More than track lore plenty owned
Amendment prayer clock plaudits
Need rescinds a songster often
Lecturable prompt and sieved
To wit the clobber of an often
Barometric pit in turn until
I bribe I rinse the rancid down
Anecdotal Praise
She came here not to
Cry. I listened loudly
To not much occur
Then came
The lifeless norm
I guess amounting to
Identity of one
Of ours, and yet
The clay feel
Of the clay feet
Bothered some fleck
Of this conscience
That we might have shared
At once along the lines of
Purity and thought weight
Somewhere possibly
A midpoint between
Doing and
Philosophy
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Sheila E. Murphy's most recent book publication is The Indelible Occasion
(Potes & Poets Press, 2000). Letters to Unfinished J is scheduled from Sun &
Moon Press. This July, she will be a featured reader at the 3rd Annual Boston
Poetry Conference. This past April, she co-tutored with Rupert Loydell a
weeklong series of seminars for the Arvon Foundation in Devon, England. In
October, 1999, she was a featured performer at the Brisbane Poetry Festival
in Queensland, Australia, attended by some 27,000 people. Her home is in
Phoenix.
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