Sheila Murphy

SOME INCARNATIONS

Couple of buzzwords lure you toward
The pearl-toned fish within the trembling lake
Interpretive askancement showpieces
An opportunity for therapy
Six pilgrims "fixin'" to be released
Stay whole, if just for me
I sing just now, a couple fake name tags
How do you define unorthodox things
Geared to break the ice

If you have trouble selling,
Then sell something else
A fact of life entails what worth is likely
To reply when screens hold breeze to
Instantaneous relief for precipice
Upon my slender covenant
What nerves begin to work

Force kids away from comfort
By design not chance
You are asked to crystallize
The aboveboard replication
Flatlined where the withering is foremost
Why not enorme what we have strayed from sensibly

Some incarnations blossom in our eyes,
Beyond them, wall-to-walleye parchment
Capstone kismet frankly wrinkles a relaxed tone
To have purpose where it hurts
Why not infringe upon toe tapping or cement waves
Of the application level dominance
You can move your chairs or kiss the lamp
Of all inflammatory eminence
 
 

PROBABILITY

Host points lush their way along the bottom rung
And in all likelihood they will be back
Here's the choice thus far
He saw positioned
That belief won't stray far,
One of the ones that brings it home
Each one is due respect
Decision models hasten thought
Cost becomes a way of integrating
With the regular activities
Enough already
Stoic frontline when and where to walk
The consequences do but don't do
Looking the other way or in the eye
Dichotomous due motional
Monochrome on hand
Says there is someone seeing me
The first time
What is owed is what is best
 
 

RETROSPECTIVE

Entire villages go numb to filter out the sludge
Of the innumerable somethings worded just to study self
Immune to normative events,
Step back into prior calendars
Floating on ice brushing the sand
Please make yourself familiar
There is not competition; we work together,
Diplomacy intrigues us forcibly,
Appearances recline,
Event-prone cyclamates induce some self-reflection,
Self examination, one of the substantive
Dialogic latchkeys, a word incorporating
Thrust, in no way placing any obligation,
Lubricate the social wheels,
Be the one somebody isolates,
The most complex, idiosyncratic mantra,
Get up every morning and relive a prior day
Build and guard a little repartee
Attribution builds walls graphically
Not conscious or unconscious reflex
 
 

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