Lovely caring speech here, Sheila, for a loss unrecoverable, even when the stain is gone. Line by line, so carefully broken, so solid in the flesh of the poem. Like Andrew says, a poetics to admire.
Doug
> On Nov 16, 2020, at 9:55 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Blondly, wine lifts from
> the fabric, as if
> nothing happened.
>
> Speech turns simple shrill
> me-centered, flat,
> and finished once
>
> desire has been fulfilled.
> Tiny, smothery attention tamps down
> tones of thought.
>
> Maybe focus has at last dried.
> Thus we wine and dine again
> first lullabies. Perhaps
>
> the sky needs to be cleansed
> just like I need to cry
> over the spilled wine once, for all.
>
> 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):
There was the usual amount of corruption, intimidation,
and rioting.
Sir Charles Petrie
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