I like the swift shifts Sheila — that the form allows, even calls for.
(I should add that she keeps this up for many pages in her new book, _Reporting / Live from / YouKnow Where_, in which she takes on & up the social/political scene in which she now lives.)
Doug
> On Jul 24, 2018, at 2:13 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> make me dinner
> make me
> thinner
>
> slice
> something with
> gusto, induce au
>
> jus, just desserts,
> bring it
> on
>
> I
> leave off
> winter and stifling
>
> sun in favor
> of iced
> justice
>
> serenity
> serenes its
> way forward toward
>
> you understood and
> me less
> so
>
> onward
> and apart
> into the doldrums
>
> or allow sweet
> spun sugar
> to
>
> inflect
> ourhought
> our shared divinity
>
> called fudge or
> not some
> other
>
> named
> incentive for
> life sentence meaning
>
> everything aflow beyond
> mercury in
> retrograde
>
>
> sheila e. murphy
>
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Listen. If (UofAPress):
Shakespeare
Drag yr mouldy old bones
Up these stairs & tell me
What you died of,
I think
I’ve got it
Too.
Sharon Thesen
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