Spines
Align the spines to find a perfect fit,
Then learn to cease to think,
Until these supple backs confide release
To choiceless wilderness brought on by letting go.
The act of capturing a photograph would make
These bodies objects, prove that we exist
Beyond our thoughts.
As sleep slows the objective case,
Another pair of eyes,
Hypothesized, would let us be.
Fragments
1.
various machinery not treble at all is cutting up the
silk oak tree
2.
the sound a cross between a ripping huff and an
explosion
3.
one of the people watching has used language to take
away the will
4.
something with a fleck of water will promote
a soothing change to earth
5.
the neighbor would go skiing and the sun would fall
away
6.
being a child requires interminable rehearsal
7.
as though a day grown to be robust would waft
alongside sails and blend with the contentment
8.
solutions thought to be saline are not they are
perpetually lacking water
9.
what of the sentence means to be the sentence
10.
tranced the way we could not have intended
pre/pose
careers are made of this endangered chandelier part
why don't you numb it with a clove
I'll be right back
how rich have you declared you are
cinch the thing dagnabbit
dollop of danger trollop of glasnost
charmed I'm sure
the roiling comes to be the only spoils
it's Monday now what are you proposing
cantilever foreplay ruses tooth in check
commandments flavored with pause are harbingers
of course nomadic inference is shored
my domiciled young farthing
openly admit to demitasse of whimper after sheets
the lines are clear as these perennial careers
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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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