Beautiful comments, Bill, and deeply appreciated, Sheila
On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 11:15 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Glorious, mood-driven, even elegiac piece, Sheila. May those commas keep on
> punctuating your life.
>
> Bill
>
> On Wed, 25 Dec 2019 at 12:08 pm, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I used to do this, I used to write
> > across the days off in a wave where thought
> > met hope met tiny things domestic and interior.
> > I used to sit still then
> > within a room contained,
> > and sense the safety fluently.
> >
> > Today the rain contiguous with faith
> > allows a spattering across windshields forming
> > some imaginary playtime.
> > Hills and shade and corners
> > fill the mind arranging
> > how these stray. I used to let the answers
> >
> > preface questions and reveal a pattern
> > I might cross. An unreasoned or unreasonable
> > release of any need for magic has arrived.
> > I talk myself out of another person's feast
> > and find a smoother way.
> > The self has ways of life embedded,
> >
> > Experiments replete with places to discover
> > land on quiet with precision that may undermine
> > a lighter fate. I cast my ballot
> > after being asked. Whatever haze
> > arrives will be dispelled. A string of commas
> > and a voyage toward this language cast.
> >
> > Sheila E. Murphy
> >
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