lines after and from harrison jeff
afterworks in patches of false privacy
rage by half apulse of phrasal monopoly
as beautiful hand themes
mounted on spiritual history
the unity of statues blessed in mindlit
stone toward sacrifice awake in moonlight
draw rest formed of day drawn toward
the striking distance
intimate or paginated
leaves smelling of sunrise
pontoon pontificat
luck awaits me poorly
rectifying twist and shrill
conglomerazzi shelfless triune blocked
blotto juridical and fathomed
thrice around the journeaux whirl
in triplicate the bonds the bans
the brinkmanship with shawl erect
and pouncing down on ravishing
few turntail wings
and caricature forestalled
type think spans all the way from hypostatic
journeying the type of spacebones
any modesty would try to waive
geriatricies at large
1. she wants to mute the faberge babushka, though I remain accustomed
notwithstanding
2. drumming fingers on formica less-than-iffily
3. trees drip with silver with the rainbow still at large
4. behold these nouns untouched by verbs
5. release inhabitable downtime with a shrill knife holding
6. deliver patronym on sedative on reasoned dimes
7. erstwhile weight gain in the wait lane
8. come home to me my farthing
9. sip chaparral for now the nuisance streetlight
10. divest of laymen's clothes in season
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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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