Ah, Doug, what a gift you are to respond in this way. Thank you for your
wonderful reading of this piece! Sheila
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Love it, the twists & turns, so I laughed out oud at points. Also, just
> really impressed, again, Sheila, by the range of your poetyic(s),
> 'senrences / relapse,' indeed.
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> Not to mention that cigar smoke....
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> Doug
> On 2013-02-18, at 11:24 AM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Erstwhile
> >
> > Doyenne languor holds.
> > This time immediacy fingers the tired instruments,
> > the poor unshapely dimplex
> > as a rule warming the hands.
> > My honor and my spree beleaguers thee,
> > so won't you marjorie your way
> > by way of honoring
> > this profligate enjoyer of cigar smoke
> > from another mouth?
> > Monthly apparatus points leave tiny flings
> > astir. The stars incite
> > romantic frost to level play,
> > thus fielding correspondence
> > course correction.
> > Daily brides turn bribes and sentences
> > relapse. I ought to be a grain of flaxseed.
> > Mantra after mantra plies
> > the whimsy from the hover
> > craft impinging on the infinite largesse of weeds.
> > Why does affection reek of
> > steel taste in the emblematic falsehood
> > of an alcohol
> > replete with
> > blithery stall techniques?
> > These selfsame plots
> > arrange themselves in minds of twenty
> > some detained sine-waved
> > deportment. Why not
> > compromise and speak to me?
> > Sheila E. Murphy
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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