Randolph, your wonderful reading of this is most appreciated on all fronts
:)
I appreciate the thoughts on "dry" - will look at those long "i" sounds and
I am very happy to have your response.
Thanks to you and to Andrew for the posting on Hi Spirits, where none of us
is a robot! :)
Warm wishes from toasty Phoenix, Sheila
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Randolph Healy
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> The title / first line ran in to the second in my mail. (Though perhaps
> that's part of the form of a poem released into the e-wild.)
>
> I was initially wondering if Sixty-Second Lilies were a form or origami or
> a reference a someone more demure than second-hand Rose.
>
> I love the jolt from the first to couples to the rapportage of the first
> line of the third. (Though not sure about the "dry". Perhaps in the company
> of "tonight", "ninety" and "quiet" it's one long-i too many? Would a humid
> heat offer less quiet? We don't know much about real heat, at least of the
> meteorological kind, in Ireland.)
>
> The cl-cu-ca in the fourth sounds a lively note, suggesting that your
> scheduled one-year old will leave her mark on the quiet offered.
>
> There's something wonderfully affirming and triumphant about the final
> "she had won".
>
> Thanks, Sheila, a pleasure to read this, one I'll come back to,
>
> best
>
> Randolph
>
> On 28/05/2012 06:44, Sheila Murphy wrote:
>
>> One Hundred Sixty-SecondLilies, like yourself, live where they are known,
>>
>> and tangibly, the elements upon them.
>>
>> Racks of how-to books explain how to locate
>> one to love, then how to love and to possess.
>>
>> Wind tonight means temperatures will not reach ninety-one.
>> People have left town, and dry heat offers quiet.
>>
>> A one-year old is scheduled to arrive at our front door.
>> She climbs into cupboards and filing cabinets.
>>
>> When my aunt died, among her possessions were multiple
>> wallets, purses, pairs of gloves, and watches she had won.
>>
>>
>> Sheila E. Murphy
>>
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