Thanks for this welcome response, Doug!
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 9:15 AM Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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.
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> Doug
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> > On Jun 14, 2020, at 10:25 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
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> > 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?
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> > Sheila E. Murphy
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> Douglas Barbour
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> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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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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> 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.
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> in Steven Eerikson’s Reaper’s Gale
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