Wonderful Sheila
Catching the moment, without even mentioning it. And how the last 2 lines of stanza 2 suddenly rightly swerve into the next 2 stanzas; thank you Ms Sardonica.
Doug
> On Jun 22, 2020, at 6:30 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> How do we unrest together?
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> Form fitting innocence
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> delimits our research
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> aspiring to a feigned rapport,
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> shuttering the views
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> of youth in peril
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> seeking to distinguish flowers
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> from devouring clans who pluck them.
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> Set the tone with pursed lips
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> making points sans impact
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> vocalizing to the empty
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> chairs chastising
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> gravitation light and
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> whims downsized to form
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> a colony of dogma leaving home
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> a glut of old codes that demand a clash
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> Sheila E. Murphy
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Douglas Barbour
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https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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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