Bill, what a grand response! Thanks! Sheila
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019, 4:05 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I like the notion, Sheila, of retracing a loved ones steps and dancing in
> them and the line about replacing continents with states of mind. My mind
> is still swimming with the other images.
>
> Bill
>
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 1:58 pm, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I cry fluently in your language
> > I cloister modesty as if it were reciprocal
> > I leave work in my psyche constantly undone
> > I limit fingerings to the literature of the flute
> > I remain a fixture amid a cappella fortunes
> > I pay per frugal integer renouncing waste
> > I limit my enjoyment to deciduous remainders
> > I pay taxes to the tune of homely homonyms
> > I retrace your steps and dance in them
> > I translate slippers into languages of the classics
> > I tempt Greek and Latin in my sleep
> > I herald quietude in visual dimensions
> > I search and replace continents with states of mind
> > I applaud contingent acts of God for being archetypes
> >
> > Sheila E. Murphy
> >
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