Thunder Sandwich  #23

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Sheila Murphy

here is mood



I pass along analogy to stretch whatever you


          and yet


the doldrums locked in place   


               give grapes away     my only


contribution          oh, hypertext


the fan is on        the bloom


and water melds into the air  that seeps    we breathe


would you just motor away     but this


          another time


contains     constrains           contiguous


           blueyellow flow ers


as chant wilderness in your spare tithing


               watch


each sequined willow slain to me


             offer a golden prop


from there restore


                  penultimate fandango


mayhaps    and breeze


        in sotto voce           dims like


    matrices      who vault    across


a parasitic sea



flexibility


here's eventually what happened:


the altar crew, divisible as grace, gave debit cards to spinners lofted into gaps one thought unheard,


to face those vague eyes pressed into flesh with longing


it was only Friday of the drizzling kind


pretend I am your child

divine to me

I'm capable of soaking in

your imitation of infinity

I promise


deck chairs are plenty for the likes of us whose poverty replenished by mentation came to be called privilege in the dark


amenities that leaked through pores

appeared a form of individual undress


she softened to my mentioned flight

and tempted me beyond transposed narration


here I am             my heart

as many of us drying

in the slanted heat

the copious renewal

theoretically by chance

bypassed by drama


a whole storm manufactured

as recapped and the occasional

grace tone mantra-ed in


here's how piercing her voice was

a sprig of fireworks ladled

from known soup


and whosoever patronized a wilderness declared by God to have been bold as weeds

gave back      was the rumor

gave back to some hypothesized young world


deveined on the veranda

of her proffered chastity


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