Very much appreciated, Doug. You caught that whiff just right, and you
reveal the poem back to me! Amused about the map, of course, as one is :)
Thanks. Sheila
On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 9:20 AM Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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> I detect a whiff of sly satiric comedy throughout, Sheila, but tended with
> such slippery imagery. I think, Bill, that ‘noiselessly slammed’ covers any
> problem with the 2nd word; & Patrick, take a look at the map, & I think
> that phrase makes sense, at least it does to me.
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> I see it as a kind of ghazal, thought coupe do begin to accrete.
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> It feels absolutely solid to me.
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> Doug
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> > On Jan 20, 2020, at 8:23 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
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> > We ventured there to get away from what we had and what we did.
> > I liked the moonlight and the sand at different points of night and day.
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> > There I was and there we were, beneath,
> > within the glut of coarse and coastal breath.
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> > The laces of my purse relaxed, the envelopes moistened themselves,
> > Invisibly and noiselessly slammed shut.
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> > I resigned myself to the span of held-in rain caught mid-air
> > across that odd appendage of geography.
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> > Now at tiny moments, facets of that place return distinctly recognized.
> > Salt sea air intrudes between the seconds of my life.
> >
> > Sheila E. Murphy
> >
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
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> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
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