"Three Untitled Poems"
Vocabulary takes the place of trees.
When this security is stripped,
Each interest payment becomes a separate entity.
Watch this evidence of wind go soft.
The litmus captures what appeared young
Caveats at first.
And now the prospect of being held
As collateral comes due or clear.
The field eventually hollows.
Allowing you to automatically reinvest.
A direct relationship with us, broker or dealer can submit a bid
The lake has no effect at all.
Book entry form can hold in one of two systems.
Consider fragrance within which you constantly are
Learning.
Contact your financial institution.
With a simple archive of the places you remember.
Why would you fail to see the blue evaporate as sun begins to slip into the
purple clouds
Commenced.
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What might be fresh again
With interest sized to mope
The real size of the tip
In the after market trading
Why does the phone ring
When I am nowhere near
Inflation is a risk to a nominal bond holder
Set precedent for purchasing a hundred thousand
Treetops
The eventual retirement
Would have its value increase
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contradiction hurts the softening
of white blue sea
an appetite for change
the once completed questionnaires relax into conditional replenishing
of furniture the syllables
the yard to wheat the day fields
many mornings
along twenty continents the vertigo entraps
these square forms of indulgence
rapt with certified attention
spanning costumed universe turned reasonable
as craft renew safety in fact
the limits of incessant ivy
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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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