Sheila Murphy

everything oceanable


everything oceanable and from here

I vent my story you invent what

we foundation in our spare

flurry of enmity as a reasonable

ramped up injustice locksteps

forehand shelving socks away

while delving into fortices and chaindrawn

wheeled wood overtime the cross-stitched

admiration spilling onto you the overdosed

connectity turned jasmine pearls

the white way forward sorted out

as in demand curve volatile

the slipped sombrero falsehood

free-poured with diacritical endorsement

thereby singsong uptick seasonal

to render how you think and where you work

and why all in your spare clouds are

unfurnished twice as many sticksketch

stemmed overdoses of canary feet

spoon out onto lawn vertigo I tell myself

the spray hypothesized is never salt enough

for me and my hydrangeas thereby coats

of pack mule suffering begin

to bray themselves to sweet cuffed dimpled

sleep beside the one the angular and singular

the space-considered sextet with a signature

alert to reasons one should curve into adept facetious

silence in one's spotted record

forehand serve aimed at the populace

right when the going has been rumored

to be tipped out straight into

a person's lone garage filled with

old pillow phlox and white mown fluff

of sheep who walk and walk and walk

and come to quiet in the manner that they

fail to move and are observed not moving



today the little girl is sick


today the little girl is sick

today the gendarmes in this city have been plentiful

already various concentric circles are emerging not

organically

our village has been dreamed

into a larger place

today there are eradications of organic openings

and there are ovoid laceups there are white trees

there are desert attitudes


there are places in this city where one cannot go

today

there are places to anticipate a gathering

although a little girl is staying home

today the little girl is sick


the desert is an outer flower

the desert has thin skin

the desert is in front and vast

the desert spreads across

the desert is an attitude


one hears water in green yards

one hears water being turned on to flood the various

green yards

one hears about responsibility

there is a little girl at home

there is a little girl who has contracted yet another

virus

there is a little girl who while on antibiotics has

contracted yet another thing apart from peers

there is a little girl lacking immunity

there is a little girl here in the desert


today the streets are blocked a certain way

today there are intended routes that must be changed

today one cannot reach the place intended

today the little girl is home with thin immunity

today she catches up on sleep and watches the tv


today the little girl is sick

today the little girl is poised to learn

although today the little girl will not recall

today is different from her life

today the little girl is sick



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