Doug, thank you very much for this thoughtful and quite confirming post.
The process in which we live is an adventure, as you suggest :) Sheila
On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 8:31 AM Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Sheila
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> Love the poem, & can see why Jill & Bill go into it in different ways:
> it’s that open. I took that *who-I-am* as also very open; that the floating
> ‘I’ thereafter was a study (the title there) & so the questions/statements
> came from many (else)wheres.
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> That they also propose meditative responses from readers seems a given; &
> I suspect versions of them came to you in various situations. Listening &
> then remembering & then finding a pattern: that’s the poetics of it.
>
> Doug
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> > On Sep 5, 2018, at 11:25 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > You are .is generous, Jill, and I appreciate the very insightful reading
> > that reveals much to me. Many thanks on the weaving of the lines!
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 5, 2018, 10:14 PM Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Sheila,
> >> So much to admire in this. The interweaving of statement, question and
> >> narrative/action is compelling (all those different 'placings'), and
> >> moving.
> >> I enjoyed the structure of complete sentences as single lines as a
> >> focus for meditation, and I think I understand why that structure was
> >> broken in the first and second lines - to end on 'else'?
> >> I see already the discussion between you and Bill about another title
> >> and I'd concur. But the Auto-Ethnography idea is intriguing, for sure.
> >> Many thanks for this wonderful poem.
> >> Best,Jill
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
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> >> Subject:SNAP: Auto-Ethno
> >>
> >> Of what use is *who-I-am*? Not much else
> >> is known. The mood of weeds comes true, *n'est-ce pas?*
> >> Syllables when unconnected endanger us.
> >> If you are listening, when do you intend to stop?
> >>
> >> The lighthouse posted in the lower peninsula is on retainer in my
> >> heart.
> >> I hear you sprinkle truth in granules I cannot connect.
> >> Is there a correlation between sadness and depth?
> >> Infinity as I have understood it has not been invented.
> >>
> >> The fresco you predicted has come true.
> >> I touch each moisture-free impression.
> >> Can habit be like fact?
> >> The mood of the people may remove me.
> >>
> >> If an angel is delinquent, who will punish?
> >> Thatched roofs distinguish sky from inner peace.
> >> The litmus test of washing day is whether we have standing.
> >> Are you who you say you were?
> >>
> >> Sheila Murphy
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
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> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> What you died of,
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> I’ve got it
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