Not quite sure what is going on with the wine imagery, Sheila but I presume
something like When the wine is in / the wit is out and I like ‘tiny,
smothery attention’.
Bill
On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 3:57 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
>
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