Thank you, Max! It is always good to feel and hear the prompt to go
forward! :)
Sheila
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Gives much pleasure
> creating pattern and symmetry
> and multi-sensory experience
> in a discriminating observer-recorder…
>
> (last line for me feels on the verge of something more)
>
> Max
>
> On Aug 18, 2015, at 22:41, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > *I have changed it as you recommended, Andrew. Brilliant. MUCH better.
> > Thank you! Sheila *
> >
> > *Smoke*
> >
> >
> > Where she listens, her small breath
> > is heard, not smoke, not voice,
> > not thin wind, just the blend
> > of each one being where they are
> >
> > Where she is, they are
> > indistinguishable from the sound
> > of thin smoke rising
> > to the heat of afternoon
> >
> > Where they are, trees are,
> > along the warm cement wall
> > where they sit, and where she smokes
> > the slender brand, this gentle afternoon
> >
> > Where they speak, they do not hear
> > smoke rise toward the blue
> > behind lace branches where the shadow
> > mimics slight moves of receiving branches
> >
> > Sheila E. Murphy
>
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