Thanks so much, Doug and Patrick. Means a lot! Sheila
On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 9:32 AM Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Lovely mediation, Sheila; I like the fact that the mothering game from
> many, & ‘she’ couldn’t feel it till away & back.
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> Doug
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> > On Aug 13, 2019, at 9:41 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
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> > She returns to their unceasing love
> > transcending language. Feels their constancy
> > she had let go, needing
> > to press forward in a sure direction.
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> > Now what is more certain,
> > their constancy she had mis-
> > understood. In keeping
> > with a purer silence.
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> > All she carried by herself
> > she thought was all
> > she would redeem, until
> > this moment of arrival when
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> > the magnets drew her in,
> > and she allowed herself to feel
> > treasured beyond the badges
> > and diplomas and awards.
> >
> > 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
> Too.
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