Definitely statements to be made & questions to be asked, Sheila; & I love the tone, how it swerves into, & almost out.
Prose for this poem is just right, too.
Doug
> On Jun 14, 2020, at 10:25 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Envy me the summer clean with hot light I can walk through while you simper
> about liking rain. A gimlet anyone would trade their eye teeth for. In
> other news, the phone along the way kept cranking out interrogation like
> the speech of youth sounding enfeebled by rehearsed uncertainty. Give back,
> says everyone. But first, do something. Then what, inquires the martyr.
> What will I be (given). Right left right goes the procession. Whose feet
> are whose? Can you say "systems thinking," boys and girls? Do you know
> frills from cleats?
>
> Sheila E. Murphy
>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Listen. If (UofAPress):
When thugs were in power, educated people were the first
to feel their fists. It was so pathetic, really, how so much violence
came from someone feeling small. Small of mind, and it did not
matter how big the sword in hand, that essential smallness remained, gnawing with very sharp teeth.
the scholar Janath Anar
in Steven Eerikson’s Reaper’s Gale
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