Thank you for this lovely response, Doug. Much appreciated, as I always
feel about your reading of work! Sheila
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 8:59 AM Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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> A beautiful sense of the ‘frame-up’ here, Sheila. A number of lines that
> hit straight home…
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> Doug
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> > On Oct 15, 2018, at 11:15 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
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> > *Do you mind *
> > *if I call you*
> > *by my first name?*
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> > It is raining when it isn't raining anymore.
> > I pantomime another sunlight in the glass.
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> > You say, *recite your prayers as though you were betrothed to God. *
> > I check mirrors for unintended code.
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> > The two-way century is closing in on reflection.
> > Bellwether of unspoken faith.
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> > Watch my mind retreat from solitude.
> > I think, therefore I frame things as you see them.
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> > We share semaphore to capture equal signs,
> > Reveal the ways each picture frames the self.
> >
> > Sheila E. Murphy
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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> thing to love that will never hit back
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