Well, I just read it, Sheila
& agree.
The layers of time & remembering, & her poetry & liveliness inside them all...
Lovely memorial...
Doug
On 2012-03-10, at 11:20 PM, Sheila Murphy wrote:
> Andrew and Stephen, thank you for your very generous responses. I
> appreciate this very much!
>
> Sheila
>
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> Shelia - I keep thinking the poem cd be about M.R. Higgins. I like the
>> sense of
>> the simultaneity of things.
>>
>>
>> Stephen V
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Sat, March 10, 2012 5:45:28 PM
>> Subject: Re: Young March
>>
>> Touching, Sheila. And all subtly about time and impermanence - I like all
>> its meditative layers.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> On 11 March 2012 06:01, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> *Tie game, short walk, high wind.*
>>>
>>> Ten years ago, she died.
>>>
>>> Phone rang and rang.
>>>
>>> Downtown, I walked at noon.
>>>
>>> We talked. Each day. Until
>>>
>>> The sixth "mild day of March."
>>>
>>> *Twenty-five to seventeen, their favor.*
>>>
>>> *"Notre Dame **is the best passing team in women's college basketball."*
>>>
>>> I have finished my cold coffee I advised her not to drink.
>>>
>>> Vibrato melds two points.
>>>
>>> Casket closed.
>>>
>>> From the altar I read aloud.
>>>
>>> *I love her mind in present tense.*
>>>
>>> In honor of her teaching.
>>>
>>> In honor of her prayer.
>>>
>>> In honor of her love.
>>>
>>> Forgive us our unkindnesses.
>>>
>>> *Huskies lead, forty-six to thirty-nine.*
>>>
>>> "Oh, my poor baby, you're just like me."
>>>
>>> The wish. Another.
>>>
>>> *Three seconds on the shot clock. *
>>>
>>> So loved, alive, invisible.
>>>
>>> Statue of Mary, in full sunlight.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sheila E. Murphy
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andrew
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