Stephen, this is very lovely feedback, indeed. I am very grateful, believe
me! And what you say about the end makes sense!
Best, Sheila
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Sheila - I like 'the feel' of this, so brought alive by the shifting
> inner-play of syllables. A kind of wisdom in it that, unforced, emerges from
> its own substrata (knowledge, memory et al). I might, as with Max's dog
> poem, drop the last word, no abstraction required!
>
> I am going to see a film next Friday night about Lorine Niedecker - your
> piece, I find, echoes the textural feel of her work. Do you know it, her
> work??
>
> Stephen Vincent
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> --- On Wed, 3/3/10, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: a vivacity of nocturnes
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 7:46 AM
>
> what lullaby resides within
> when wholly-owned sub-
> strata quicksandalwood
> a way through domiciles
> and commisaries and
> estate sales fathomed
> as a last
> endowed
> resort
>
> impervious to latitude although
> the longitude will
> remain among us
> now that our plain children
> cease to mollify
> mundanity while we project
> these tissues of importance
> that surround routine
>
> listen to the Dutch elm
> breeze shake childhood
> from familiar breezes
> (one speaks of porches
> in a handful of small
> conversations)
>
> and the land goes soft
> upon the thought
> of land, the hills
> beyond en-
> close us amid
> imagined space appearing
> gently to be modifying
> itself and others of us
> all across the acronyms
> for substances
> to be resisted
> or approached,
> abused some summer
>
> when the look of
> pavement holds heat
> for the duration, and a side
> of affection holds still,
> holds true,
> holds even water
> for the heart
> to mind the existential
> looking seeming sounding
> store of recollections
>
>
> sheila e. murphy
>
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