December 12, 2022
Getting Away (Party)
No matter no spirit no wheel no world
What stopped being joyful spawned
Pursuits barely tethered to life choices
That slipped and fell and had to be
Revived the rambunctious soul noise
Spattered across windscreens
Of intelligible reverberations costly
Cheap in the vernacular there was no settling in
There was no relief of sunlight following
Brutal storms there were no fireflies
No stochastic mumbles no relief the pale
Wagering set sail and prompted paterfamilias
Fatigued with prior gardens still reeking with
Blooms
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© the author
by Sheila E. Murphy
Sheila E. Murphy is the recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award for her book Letters to Unfinished J. (Green Integer Press, 2003). Her most recent book is Golden Milk (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2020). Reporting Live from You Know Where won the Hay(na)Ku Poetry Book Prize Competition (Meritage Press (U.S.A.) and xPress(ed) (Finland), 2018). Also in 2018, Broken Sleep Books brought out the book As If To Tempt the Diatonic Marvel from the Ivory. The chapbook Separation Theory (Writers Forum, 2004) was just reprinted (Trainwreck Press, 2022). BlazeVOX will publish Learning to Relax in 2023.