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Poem by sheila murphy, music and visuals by ed schenk.

forget is posy

champion you bitter
nexus then all
suddenly the earth

//

a posture selves
the insufficiency depth
perceived goes lunching

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en masse silver
tone eaches one-
sixth of strings

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posture governments its
way through to
deformity in camera

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may you earn
unsalted reverence with
or without water

I Send a Postcard to Aretha from Nogales

I am learning nouns to write into the tiny space
already ripe with pronouns adverbs idioms for keeps
I want to focus here on Morley Street
where children in the families of talent dance
to music of the language on the street
and in the school and on my radio
defeating all unfriendliness
by occupation of the center court of brain
where deep breath is everyday
each morsel of the needed fire
combines with rain and earth and atmosphere
until the town becomes her kind of voice

from ANDANTE VARIATIONS (5)

strands of vinegar ||| reflect
twin winters ||| trained to seed
Voltaire the line brain
in a vise again |||
as peach leaves ||| prints where
hesitation prompts outline |||
post-lachrymose neglect
of situation frenzy |||
lined with salt
dusty with adjectives
in play

stochastia

mimesis yonders out my love for
(levels out) tomorrow will be better than
I rinse I save the light (you)
formulate this conjugation (make real workings)
of the night do I send often
flex the reed-strong melody (leave something) back
hold thus in check remainder as a verb
the length of night these vortices
replenish what we bring to them
my love for the word
rendering still canvas into breath
life forcing avid singular complete new
(offering you)
which am I of us again
tomorrow will it be

cadab

abra
ra
yesitext
tacitic
frieze-dry
com
mon curs(iv)e
yadda(squared)-tude in all
compriest
a meant intrusion
interlapidary
comfrey sip to tide
u o ver(t)