Thanks, Doug. The ghazal connection seems important, and one I had not
recognized! You are the one to find it! You know that well. Sheila
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 9:26 AM Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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> It seems to be all in ‘the spaces of these staves,’ Sheila, a darkling
> song that poetry becomes. I get a sense of a new kind of ghazal, each
> quatrain what a couplet might be in the original form, itself pretty
> musical I think. Yeah, the mind follow a meandering…
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> Doug
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> > On Aug 27, 2019, at 1:52 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
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> > Tell me a story, and I'll chaperone your lies.
> > Make sentences as sparse as desert rain.
> > I'll record your every breath mark that inclines to words
> > to capture as if stains on spaces of these staves.
> >
> > When you sing words, remind them
> > to connect. Just as an insistent darkness
> > may trespass on the dusk as if to quell
> > lark tunes that reverberate escape.
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> > Bring home the state of who were were
> > as we held still within this place
> > we did not make or name, but lived
> > resisting any urge to shift away.
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> > And now the dovetailing of lifelines
> > capture what an innocent might believe
> > amid the rubble and the rumors
> > and the lines laced into fiction to adore..
> >
> > 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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