As Freed and Then
Twelving rests for five and water
Chaperones the life out of
Warmed fast beyond the river
Seeped and shortfall
Everlast to sift one's history from the desire
To serve to streamline rest
Each morsel conversation
Safened or detracted risk
Would have remained through all
The foster yarn the sieve the simpling
Altogether formed as freed and then
Send Roses Today
Send in color,
Send blue ones flashing on the screen,
Send roses, send today
Send ripe ones, budded ones, ones with petals that appear relaxed,
Send tight ones, ones with flecks of white,
Send roses, send in color, black and white, send tinted ones,
Send roses that depart the charts in beauty,
Send big ones, sweetheart ones, send white and yellow, even
rubharb-colored ones,
Send roses the color pie, send bone toned,
Send the color wheel of roses,
Send fed ex, send hand delivered,
Send roses anything but C.O.D.,
Send roses today
quiet
quiet from the ground up
quiet simply thinking
quiet as unlatched
quiet once she sang she spoke she whispered
quiet since
quiet before birth
quiet first preferred then
quiet simplified
quiet followed by a small trill
quiet meaning nothing
quiet at last
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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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