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Sheila Murphy   Five Untitled Pieces

1.   Let's go someplace, sit and seem Intelligent. The more I see you, The more I trace captivity's Dry branches, comb the sequels   Of past atmosphere. The lowly Afternoons form silences. Are we agendas Landed simplified,   Imposed, deposed of grounding Features, benefits and Damages to lock in toward A view of slumber in the tall tale   Rounding hills with unclaimed Dowry, sanctified by feeling Droned, indemnified, and dealt with In the tea-toned silver of a nearby noon?        2.   Frets stave off propinquity. From where I work, The spindle's crazed with Icons over the limit,   Leaving pictures Where we work. Floor syllables Perfume dreams out of bounds. A wanted passage lures us   To time off the clock Wearing comforts. Is the love of many pens A form of promiscuity?   Quipped earthen lactose backfield In my arms, requires mint Blasphemy to hustle the arcane Press of a dimwit cusp.        3.   Symmetrical malaise aloof For now re-swindles steaming Acreage to seed by Laminate rubricity.   The long short long Area map prophesies Hip boot amnesty To truncate   Many this-es, Thats, toward the Fracas in our heart Untangled focally.   Our megamere Enlightened feathercap Willpoints of Precis, partway hatched.        4.   Let me waste time in your eyesight, Own nothing learned in bounds, Cheat both of us when Documents begin to feed themselves   A scrawl onto plain shirts We don't wear without emblems That remind us to vote according to Conscience, pasteurize some something,   Let fly the vectorotomy of blood baths Reeling from the sentenced game face Layering attention in broad Starless stripes breaking the tire   In shreds the size of kisses winking After surges Least presumed, least Vulnerable to accident's surrender.        5.   In your arms meaning In your arms least captioned, Consonance affords snow's brevity, Of vintage trees   And shells unbroken, Juxtaposed as Fondly, slowly Woven generosity   Unto a veneration Pieced to mean This loveliness Against a pressing   Grain on wood, the tame Amendment wafer's Shy, evolving And entwined interior.

Sheila Murphy

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