Thanks so much, Doug! I appreciate your good reading. Sheila
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 8:27 AM Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> So much happening quietly here, Sheila. How that awhile slips into the
> whole conversation, allowing more than asked, even if ‘he’ may not
> understand it. A gentle cry for what that final line denotes, & desires.
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> Doug
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> > On Jul 30, 2019, at 2:41 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > I did not argue him away from his affection. I left off thought
> > and let it be awhile, this arduous July of heat and friction
> > and desire for coolness if some smoothing could evolve.
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> > He was asking my agreement, and my voice relaxed
> > into professional response, conveying maybe
> > that opinions matter less than what we build between us,
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> > part intentional and part an accident in openness.
> > How is everyone important independently? The space between
> > one voice and another cradles something in us wanting
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> > to be played the way a violin or game of handball might,
> > with every facet of being intertwined with
> > every facet of being known and almost loved.
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> > Because that's what we do when we allow the softness
> > spirited and clear and gentling toward a picture
> > that includes the roses and the nutrients and land and breath and sky.
> >
> > 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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> Drag yr mouldy old bones
> Up these stairs & tell me
> What you died of,
> I think
> I’ve got it
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