maple leaves fallen
over blacktop, dark sketches
change the white page
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single snowflakes
fallen to their depth, remain
unmeasured
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Eyelashes move in
Ways of blue, behind them
Languorous, young blue
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Cushion behind her
Back, the back I love to warm,
Late night’s own firelight
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Fresh Peaches Grace the Tidy Trees
Fresh peaches grace the tidy trees
Above the canyon in July to be enjoyed
Under the window light minus warm rain
When is a journey not remotely like
The biblical impasse where each person
Burns to limber the imagination
Indoor light grows scarce as intellection
Near silk roses in a feigned repose
Akin to sanctifying grace tones under shade trees
The imperative resilience plays against
Wine supervision tempting evidence to seem
Contrary to intuitive response near daybeds
Hades is hypothetical to wedge the would-be
Criminals apart from inclinations that arouse
Their ferreted suspicion to new rodeos
A plaintiff is a wooden manifesto
Made to serve chance elements of creed
Contrived to mean contralto leanings forward
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| Sheila E. Murphy's book manuscript Letters to Unfinished J. was selected in this year's open poetry competition sponsored by Sun & Moon Press, and will be published by Sun & Moon. Dennis Phillips was the judge. Falling in Love Falling in Love With You Syntax: Selected and New Poems has just been released by Potes & Poets Press. Recent works include A Clove of Gender (Stride Press, 1995). Murphy's work has been widely anthologized, most recently in Fever Dreams: Contemp orary Arizona Poetry (The University of Arizona Press, 1997) and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Contemporary Poetry (Sun & Moon Press, 1994, 1995). The Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series recently brought out an autobiography of Sheila E. Murphy, including photographs of Murphy with family and friends.
Sheila Murphy co-founded with Beverly Carver and continues to coordinate the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series, now in its eleventh season. Murphy is President of the management consulting firm Sheila Murphy Associates. Since 1976, she has made Phoenix, Arizona, her home. |
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