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:
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> *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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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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