Sheila E. MURPHY

back to milk four home


Parentheses 

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 shear 

Metronome 

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 unknown 

At 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 
Awhile 

Quotidian 

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."