Thanks so much, Bill, for your thoughtful response to this piece. I hear
you! Sheila
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 2:30 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Intriguing series of connections, Sheila, that you set up here, leading to
> your final line with rhymes. I particularly like what you do with shucking.
> The line about motion forming a scene on roads is quite cinematic but I’m
> not sure how it fits here. Perhaps I am misunderstanding gently, another
> fine phrase.
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 at 7:18 am, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Eucalyptus trees and I do not tolerate wild cold.
> > We lean on heat and dry leaves quiver in thin wind.
> > Then new bark comes on to shuck the old.
> > We keep starting over.
> > Stiffness prompts our shouldering something.
> > Poise along the branches soon contagious.
> > Along roads motion forms a scene.
> > However short or long this life, presence holds
> > A place for being misunderstood gently
> > Enough to teach me not anymore to care
> > Beyond the trees beyond being weak in the knees
> > And warm in mind and trying to be kind.
> >
> > Sheila E. Murphy
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