Sheila E. MURPHY
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The sift made five fevers synonymous with twelve silent reeds. Words ceased to be anonymous pointing to common mistakes. The French revolved around themselves. Moved at their own pace/risk/ will. Emergencies are what you make them. Biding someone else's time. Enliven every ounce of grist for now. The formal silver shakes like mercury. She would play with properties of subdivision endlessly. In due course, rinse can mean a sampled river. Equally, the ample frost over a warm calliope. Is that fanciful completion something like a dime left on the table. More like vaulting over loaned executive suspicion. Why be reasonable more than once. A war used to be starting. Now the trusted one's returned home where she will have shepherded at leisure progeny who so resemble her that they appear to dovetail with her urgencies.
Narcissistic code, the devilish learned dream, equator-prone and almost everlasting
Movement/Town
Serpentine new rivers five times as tweaked as surety prompt the risen savior to be twice as noble, four times as vicarious and five-fold in variety. The only avenue incapable of loss is the cyclical earned rampage she engages in without a moment to be named. The express hors d'oeuvre contrives to have been seen for what it is in time to shift its consciousness away from fate and dominance, fate and permits, fate and lozenges. For richer or for purer seemed the overlay, one wafer at a time. Are we often against reason in our surly mood or are we buttoned bronze. Complete in our conjunctive heists determined to mine safety from uncertainty. Whose guesses do we not apply to recent tantrums. Anyone would dry, one at a time, along the line drive. Easily along the driven need, the seeds in hand, the comfort, the sown land.
Violets each interrupting any obvious disjunction, steady with the large flecks of couleur
Vast
Train case fracas cordially chills
Certitude's abrupt haphazard
Insolence until the game face
Happens on a rune's hysteria
Combine two strands of talent
With an empty third
And twang a hesitant preoccupation
With and to as forecast
Tentative as clock face taller than
Serenity in chat room spaces
Ligament front purity when framed
Surrogate elders preen on their own
Watch the sudden ostrich proofs
To limber up the prior agitation
Smoothed by hand and thinking
Blotter holding in the bluest ink
Salsa
Voice recall as earth frays opening's
Paused example trained
To have derived from early days
Light water used for what
Until four warm reactors
Pounce on the eviscerating
Sclerotic op cit mercantile
Purview totally in stays
The loping preface dandles haze
In fuel-safe opiate endurance
The resemblive code of stray timed
Reverence offers lost momentum
Squarely where it lives a mutually
Paunchy life estranged from
Referenda placed on tongues
Like the traditional communion toned till shearMetronome
Wind evenly impedes
The glove compartment
From containing
Bankruptcy and avoidance
Strategy without a strand
Of power where cliché
Consumes horse sense
Viatically shrinking from
The cross stitch
Welcoming a failure
Of technology
One needs to tune
The talk, to walk,
To waffle, to indulge in
Who considers which
Wide unknownAt The Moment When I Start to Say Goodbye
Her conversation picks up stamina and splays into twelve different avenues. And there's momentum pressing the craft forward. She gains energy and a modicum of wit. She wants this to last longer, be more consuming, take flight generously and not be downed by former gravity. She wants to tell me what she's never said before. And then repeats. She wants this to become the start of many conversations. At the moment when I start to say goodbye, she picks up fire and shows her penchant for eternity. She wants to put the whole town's worth of observations figuratively out on the Formica table. She wants to drift across my two cents using her millions. She wants to capture all there is to say and say it. Her conversation is a life form, and she means it. She means to live forever, and address my listening. She wants my listening skills to match her speaking.
Concentration, matching likenesses, dependent on recall
Atmosphere
It came to mean
What one believed
Would be true
Outside the room
One had been in
AwhileQuotidian
I want to talk to you
About the insufficiency
In those who do not
Work at being
Extraordinary
And now there is no moment
To look forward to
When I can reach you
Any time and talk
And hear you say,
"Oh, Sheila, I was hoping
It would be you."