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I like the notion, Sheila, of retracing a loved ones steps and dancing in
them and the line about replacing continents with states of mind. My mind
is still swimming with the other images.

Bill

On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 1:58 pm, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> I cry fluently in your language
> I cloister modesty as if it were reciprocal
> I leave work in my psyche constantly undone
> I limit fingerings to the literature of the flute
> I remain a fixture amid a cappella fortunes
> I pay per frugal integer renouncing waste
> I limit my enjoyment to deciduous remainders
> I pay taxes to the tune of homely homonyms
> I retrace your steps and dance in them
> I translate slippers into languages of the classics
> I tempt Greek and Latin in my sleep
> I herald quietude in visual dimensions
> I search and replace continents with states of mind
> I applaud contingent acts of God for being archetypes
>
> Sheila E. Murphy
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