The Rehearsal
evictional convict
ion branches brain
confevered brim to splice
a field warm
here’s a map to outside form
contented toward
the few lean world the sure tune
lens revealing share
ware tonsure’s capstone
view of the serene
mentation glory be to eminence
to lay perspective
fit with bigger pictograph
delivering toward visitation homes
hinged to the many seas
Odd Lots
1. avail
just across the face of it
there are resounding space bars
to have tapped
so listen to the clear
still linger
2. write notes
to pass and froth
the film forth
tripped a plucked wire
safely spin alliance
practice being safe
forget the logic
prime the post-hoc prance
3. for trembling
for trembling to have northern lance
the exit snaps into sustained remission
to the safe afforded watch print
4. unfocus group from the south or the west side
eventually something came around
to unpin cloth and ramify
until a set of bones became unlatched
5. immensely young recovery broadcasts
immensely young recovery broadcasts
leafing through plush values
sourced to something north
aside from various unlesses
having to do with instruments
my maiden name my current name the only
wavelength trained not to
diminish face
blanches in ways one need not
advocate
requiring merely something tested
something branched
some water left
not to be reaching
pulling back
then reaching
again
in vitro
before serenity passes
muster oceans fail to
cauterize concurrent eye
tests measure the informed
impassive stamina what was
your first integrity informed
to brace the letter when and if
a pasture seems composed
for now the form the status shifts
to qualms
The perfect daytime [get well soon]
Revolution in age-
resistance fortifying
Boost of patented UVA
filter total broad spectrum
protection against pre-
mature aging
repairs damage erases
fine lines and shifts dull texture
Deep within the sur-
Face layers
Swiftens into frenzy
dry exhausted skin
intensive firming offers
sluggish cells new stamina
via lavish [signature] condition
er
Six Moments
1.
Peace carried about transists to
Peace cared about
To go to
War requires a simple
And to talk
Of war as if
There can continue being
A hereafter peace
Lifted unto Temples of reality
Sprouts
Wings to stretch across
2.
Somewhere in our midst are
Reasons not to raise each flower
One silences the effect size
Exhausts one's store of feeling
How are you living along
The pathway to authority
3.
Are there decibels are there
Diplomacies is color fluid
As it is sparse
Bringing layer upon lather
Corpulent inferred young silhouette
Sung peacefully the color Jaune
The color catastrophic as in
Stiffness of the brain
4.
The litho brackets strive to
Tender clarity unless commandment
Stays with placement spoken before thought
Surmounts the letter jeopardizing
A plenary endorsement of a leafy
Quaff to fasten the attention on
5.
The subject of recourse rehearsed
Thoughtful as a swift career
Made choiceful in a threaded way
Some quiet or some traction
Launched from space the viable amendment
Trained to count
Backward from ten
Triumphs
6.
Care lines hold the face still
Reverence implodes swiftness
Trembles fast as silk
Attunes itself to leather
Just to silk away a misted attitude
In keeping with the learned
Response enclosed in earnest choice
Where certainty gives grasp
Its only bait a brain
Full of receding
ice cake flurry of the moss once flowed upon
flowed open, lowed over protests during pretest
the prefecture stalling
near a wannabe perturbace ovally configured
over preconception in the crawlspace factoring a trawling curfew
patched to wish the flown sign openly precast is tidy in a squawl
appurtenances aside there may be wonderful neglect inside the hour
and consequences further prided in a pure pieced sense of practice
openly de-fibered in or near contiguous new promptness over code
revered and recompensed as nearby sugar
the intended overview curbs anybody's appetite for lingering
apart from destined range a furtive mile or so from stretchpoints
here and there contextual
and of the moment this and customary
Left-handed masterpiece unless
The aftercare embosses a retrieved plank
Someone monitors with pasture
In the eyesight of outmoded inference
Cloudlight its own fiction traps
A gaping raft of global sheeting
Crafted open like the body found
To implicate persona grata
Words offer mystery
Broth spills quietly at least once or
Repeated as the caliber of mood
Repeals clockwork from informal destiny
A saxophonic oversized young evening
Furnishes the rapture improvised
By hand by wallspace fern
Convex as syllogisms in or near surroundings
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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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