I Am Going to Get Away Awhile

    I'm going to take my shadow and release it to the parent wind, inherent wind,
    I'm going to take my leisure and be swilled with it
    In clear young glasses to be seen and to facilitate all seeing
    I am going to repair my progress all in one fell motorcade,
    To lift the seashell to apparent darkness and return to young green
    everlasting grass stains
    I am going to rehearse until performance is irrelevant
    I am going to be a butterfly, to seem one, to release myself from every fear
    I am going to be less of a professional integrity machine
    I am going to be more of one
    I am going to relax
    I am going to become an entity massaged by you and by my gentle off-day
    penitence
    I am going to be noble and delivered dried
    I will release the atmosphere from its contingent darkness
    I am going to be pals with semaphore and sign to you my least new love
    I will read a long book that takes place in fuddy-duddy country with people
    overdressed
    And never overdrawn
    I am going to become somebody else awhile
    I am going to have earned income really work for me
    I am going to depart these premises awhile and not be powerful
    I am going to be smitten by a self I've never known
    I naturally will institute a pressure cooker atmosphere
    And let it fly from here
    And let nobility be painted wan
    And let the crying satisfied ephemera be as tall as glass panes
    Shining color to the pavement or the lawn or sea


    Hush

    White tide sounds west
    To cover and erase the land.
    Soon there will be sand droplets
    As smooth as needs kissed down
    By wind gusts kind upon the rocks.
    It will be summer for a lifetime,
    And our dreams long
    Will keep our waking minds
    As good as snow,
    Alert into the atmosphere
    Of cherishing the answer
    In a wave surging then
    Smalling back into subtraction
    Vested in the open mind.


    Try to Have Been Rabelais

    Try to Have Been Rabelais
    Require of friends that they disperse
    Within proximity of enemies
    Vary your rehearsal time in time
    To have been given trophies badges
    Won the game of blind man's bluff
    Go sway some fence warm kind of purview
    Take time not fully yours
    Weave the streets call out community
    Be a fraction of the wave


    plain

    is ever to've curried flame
    broiled unction a repeat
    dream (methinks) often
    tithing winnows a
    way through plentifully
    bountifully . . .


    in time

    be your own
    sacrament, unveil
    one threshold and
    the next still
    languishing
    softly as atmospherically
    detailed or smoldering


    place


    we     {expanse}    this is
    our folding and unfolding
    fluid optically rendered
    optionally potent for
    alignment so to say
    a stream {not segment}
    geo-
    metric
    swell not fallen
    swifting to-
    ward a long line
    fervently dimensioned


 

 

Sheila Murphy
     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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