Sheila Murphy

PROWESS REMAINS

Decorum fasts. We plenary the mainframe tidings lastingly. A fresh 
noose holds over our heads incantatory moldings once picked over in a 
fit of jungling. I have traveled to display. A wide net forms this 
congregation. Prowess remains vaguely horizontal. The cement remaining 
in a pit creeds forward as a priest incarcerates the thoughts of 
listeners synonymous with escape clause. Hundred yearn for solace. The 
remarkable A-train distances our betters from the landing gear that 
will deride our fate. A bounty likes to be associated with what's west. 
Pilot speech the opposite of wants. Today when I need information, 
he's on mute so I cannot decipher what's accompanying. Or when we land, 
having in mind the why of all this patterning. The default position 
landing is, competes with unexpected closure. Last and constant is the 
mountain range with all that magnet to be tapped. Some lakes are reedy 
blue. Poured in the land so easily that they become a weld of 
seedlings. When the last soprano beams, it will be church for starters. 
The machine called "combine" and anticipation of a sheaf of grain to 
be poured in.



WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY

Perhaps to the fourth power crafting adjectives demonstrative and 
otherwise pointing the lever west (best guess). To what extent does 
this electric fraction pop quiz all the way to haberdashery. He's 
clothed so fortyish he's windowed north and probably the smooth 
direction of the brush (walk in the arroyo prompting resurrection of a 
borrowed youth). The dog lopes through the lapidary window seat. 
(She's wearing all her fractionary jewels. She's easter of the 
apothecary. Dazzled past the yes of neighboring phenomena.) This many 
flapjack follicles. This many yeasts. This many inclines past the 
promontory weather. Travel quickly to be tamed as slipknot as they get 
with hunches on their backs feedback and knit purl harnesses the full 
way forward also. In the lane that's closest to a heathen face-first 
farthing's worth of levity. To brunch we slow boat for we're worn and 
clasped and tribal. Keepsakily as we covet anything that's low as 
anymore we rotate and we round the nearest corner.

Yet next best, "to do" list in calligraphy, the top half of a soprano



A SMOOTH ELAN TO HAVE EMBROIDERED AND THEN CREASED

Quicksand reputed to have open arms receives with thirst so obvious 
you'd swear contagion had set in. The room's length archery downs 
several peak experiences halfway humorous because we come as soon as 
we are asked. He mortared never-loose opinions into omnivores who 
swore they cared as carefully as for a creche. He picked a smooth elan 
to have embroidered and then creased as if to interfere with the 
narration. "All cows eat grass." Pleasurably, hound dogs join the 
ranks of pets as wanted as the poster boys in P.O.s we have passed a 
score of times. This human carnival declared he held writers 
accountable for progress psychological or otherwise. He said his 
nether prayers. He showed us how to weep though it felt pre-recorded. 
All the forms of hair dryer rehearsed a constancy of whine. Symbology 
prepared to quaff a half a jug of olive juice because it often had to 
simmer in some physicality half crooned. The feathers fail to chatter, 
anyone can vouch. There's work to do that's fundamentally compatible 
with cherishing our sleep as though a firmly blessed thing.

The robing and disrobing in these passages, the sequencing



THE QUIPPERWARE OF ALL NEW TONGUES' LONG SUFFERING

The quipperware of all new tongues' long suffering long past 
All these handsome birds and blotters left in warehomes 
Do you feed me trout 
When limber I'm aghast at all the fangled down quilts 
Who needs gimme politics when summer scores a hot new tip for all to magnify 
Eviction is a science well bred well thought out coiffed as any tide in process of Responging 
Fancy that, she offered in a prior English thought American one time 
The razor wire of all this self 
And pilferage, remember that from rhet and comp 
She slept behind twelve rows of other desks so soundly I could tap in to her dream 
A little canyon all its own 
Send help as soon as moons declare themselves as worthy as the next full-grown noun 
Violence remembers these have been been our knees 
One time the clipped sequential membrane of a duck wing dipped into the raisin colored Sea 
Where nothing had been washed, where there were things to wash all day 
And all day lapping lapping without purpose, save to mesmerize 
What had been kept, what had degraded, and the e-mails roundly kept responding 
"Was that linear"



LOVE POEM IN TWO HALVES

First Half

These minuses keep 
Lunging and restraining 
Impulse to conserve 
On breath perhaps 
Shared or perhaps 
Left home to redefine 
What home 
After a point 
A reconciliation seams 
Some particles 
Retract and business 
Also usual pronounces 
Its biography in staid 
Small reflect particles 
That don't approach 
Remission 
Otherwise, mimesis 
Of a rumored comfort 
Perhaps simply default 
In answer to 
The lonely gravity


Second Half

Touch best 
Known for 
Lingering 
Harmonics 
For the dailies 
Just retrace 
Some things 
Craft 
Leisure in the mind 
As gently as a made thing 
Never passes 
One beside the other one is 
Adjectival 
So and so 
Who never earn 
Desire 
Who also braid 
Accumulating strands of evidence 
None of the singularity 
Stays true