sheila murphy

 

Motion

Weather's opposite
Remediates in repertoire
The gains square with anchor
Equally the fault

Rostrum lifts feeling
Stunned by the demure flecks
Shushed into a small pile
Valuable to score

External ruse still glistens
Formally so who needs
Singing anymore the only one
Taming these flocks participates in

Person so and so much
More than enclaves that
Eventually come up short
As pastures cleave to sea

 

diary north

she swigs a little
charity inhibits then as para-
normal/mour
discalculates in
formance stones (unpeeled) piled
up the chanted
wrath in front
of petrofit from
mood to mergers
trilling cost-post
jimmied lock lines
as a raft is shut-
tled frameward


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pertaining to and to vermouth against the grain
still ratcheted at will-point
for the blue and toned disjunction
functioning apart and singly snug
in an outmoded thought or plain idea system

you realize apart from and are curious
about the impulse to mourn brevity
when clearance forms its decibels
for all and sofa to bequeath upon

fuel reverts to future tense
and generously seashine passes
what it was we altered
in a tactful pressed omnipotence
just chaliced past configurable distance
pretty much out of one's system
seemingly a reasonable whisper toward relief at its most evident
a short nap from here
what might be prepared
and fathered once beyond assorted text and tantrums

 

Wallpaint

State of speech declaims a navigable
Ocean simmering as top plot sideways
Reamed to wit a golden trap
Pronounced in climate-captive

Shamrock sacked from timing
Craft a place for raggedy-leaved
Shrapnel coifed as summer
In a shake-roof quiet

Broken thought cliffed
Debt paint reams this
Reciprocity as wallpaint
Stiffens to the ripchord tune

Old waltz with semitones
Leaves breathing kilter
In a luminous young room
Replete with center

 

Ancestrally

Broth of mid-reply, the morning
Underlit by fog
Entires the limit of suggestion
Marking moments after fact
Imbued with stealth
That weighs more than
Ambrosial carelessness
Apart from stymied wings
Spun glass fiber tactile
With the lake plied
Tier on tier
Forsaken limned by quiet
Trace of sun
Revealing lace
Again

 

Tens

Draw spoken word with map with haze
Imaginacular twin votive thins
The aftercare to ramify finale
France tested with mute cones

Black and white is comforting
Twice yes the firestorm
Beyond sunshine capped off
By infinity of leisured aspartame

Few weeded still premonitive
Sterling seeds to put in blank space
Ice packed inklings
Rather than the punch drunk virtues

Quaked as vortex planned with center
In a first hurt scented by
Embankments crowded furious
Mobs to flirt with frolicking


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A few wine-lazy melts and she
Comes porous home to latch
The circumspection roomy as
A catch-phrase close to ruminative

Climb as feeling's bracketed
By hindsight then averted from
Clear-feeling parasitic
Spasm clones versed

Close to certainty
As silence cures the feud
Of worthiness the stole
Were buoyant tin

Alacrity astride a deviled blue
Mild sky grows single-minded
And askance until the loam
Is silver scan and driven fire


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Woven tithe is shimmering
Gain steels to pact as givens
Sting the weeds
And lotion passes

For imaginary lute strings
Scented lure and promenade
Unless the fair grade
Coined to temper vile breadth

A separation stains its few
Lone seven dimes left
On the dresser
Pennies taken will be tossed

On promenade as summer
Takes possession fact in
Laminate gives grain
Its serious M.O. near any window


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> Tact makes an amalgamated
Fortune quickie
Burnished fast upon
The windowsill

Is heat from any lamp
Is posing every imposition
Stalled and yet
Solidified

This cup of tea
This cannon
These anticipated thieves
Dreamed costumed

More than river to
Concoct quiescence
And then breeze by dorms
In thatch and latches


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Spined cointreau basked in brackets'
Sheerity as portrait cures
Aruba vests with sparrow
Soffits as if metaphor had brusque insides

On Tuesday shares were plunked
Where severity was thought
Through as if lines
Branded the lore with curatives

To brace bodies for the stoic
Hazing of a hasp faulted
Along the lines of
Care flow

In these dimly lighted rooms
Crafted service slowing
Lake's own
Corresponding seams

 



 

Sheila Murphy
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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