Very welcome and sharp reading of this, Doug. How I appreciate it! Thank
you. Sheila
On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 7:18 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Ooh, I love this version of a poetic dialogue, Sheila, & the way the
> questions open up the responses. Especially the hibiscus. Maybe, as they
> all become pertinent in the exchange. Stretching to that ‘halfway finished
> place’ as a poetics, perhaps…
>
> Doug
>
>
>
> > On Apr 2, 2018, at 11:53 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > *Do I give up on making what I want?*.
> > It is already here. Now to navigate
> > each pilgrimage of thought,
> > where patterns take turns self-disclosing.
> >
> > *Can hibiscus preen without a personality?*
> > I thought so for an hour
> > before you came. Then we had things to cover
> > beyond zeal and yield.
> >
> > *Do the neighbors hear themselves erasing silence?*
> > Maybe they're a mere recording
> > of what will go away,
> > Dreams make language obsolete
> >
> > *How many altitudes can be arranged at first light?*
> > I strive for higher elevation,
> > Stretch to find my pace, to reach
> > a tall and halfway finished place.
> >
> > Sheila E. Murphy
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> Listen. If (UofAPress):
>
>
> There is no real
> world, my friends.
> Why not, then
> let the stars
> shine in our bones?
>
> Robert Kroetsch
>
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