Douglas Barbour & Sheila E. Murphy
Continuations CII:
spins span night and day a shot
in the dark a new sentence sent
&nbs from a hilltop sentry post
posted into the heart of
contingency far far away
a passing franchise or a franchised past
frenetic in its executable form
beneath frame’s provenance
all that shows is tarnish
despite assigned eyes sentenced to see
from points at which height render
specificity not tall
nor tailed among shadows
saddened fried
circuits break errors
broke bearers letter
perfected as to delivery
recorded almost (a)live
hades has adherents roaring
to do bitterness
apart from olive branches
that would form hypothetical agreements
at the inflection point of
barren and besieged
takes a grammatical turn in to
off ramped up rhetors
reaching back to dark
est hierarchs fallen and
jelled material lies
deny all reaching out
already pinned to amperage
the stress of self destined
for urns as quaint
as viewing audiences turned
into line drawn
heritage presumed revealed
as my sainted (h)aunt a master
full of vice all awaits
smallest innocence odor sancti
fie the newly erected self
hatred given ex(op)pression
hidden deep in the vaults
nascent treads viewable under
microscope solely play through
the awareness taint
smooth surface first
with strata stress as if
to last into selfsame
sell some internal or
eternal real a state
of lost union or multistate
solution dissolved in
rising tide of rupture
rumor as tumor expanding
seeming immune to sundry
reversals exposition
“show your work” of poison’s
dire inflection frittered
motion tremors left
to rise then rupture
explosion as new state of being
ignorant as no excuse
but used anyway an any
say something more than
bind faith bond security
laying cash on the ‘mine’
tapping plenty from up-
start point where
recusal prompts
stasis worded in common
parlance new and used
excuses vying for being left alone
why is this fell for &nbs; an eye out
off it such a shame
full but unfathomed
sea change / a singular
moment airy nothing
to say for that lone ()hood
unheld one nothing can
prevail except the arm
or fallen drawn sea light
tantrums come to naught
unless the constant present
tense smalls then and then
provoked against a past past
all remembrance fell
felt philandering minds in want
to know beyond belief
believing behaving
sadly forgetting all
aspiration trills leaves the known
fluttering beyond evocative
right brains
behavior is the white sail
drifting after mindset’s
philosophical inflection
sales in the moanblight infectious
philosophes renounce a new
metaphysics metabolize a mind
set in its way ward
ing off all actual
thinking (as perceptual real
feckless loss leaders
enunciate parables with
a mind to push back
aggregate aggression
the act of actualizing philosophy
may be moot ’though newly set in
stone(s) or stoned a loss of
real whirled balance
top spinning bottom spun
an other kind of shove
it or that
effective disparaged index
ostracism may result in
bottom feeding lack of intonation
settles in unpinned hovelry
while mood festers as though wooden
unclaimed
thoroughly unfun
unfinished always all
ready to throw off the chains
remains a dream only fostered
out laws laid down to ensure
rejection a mind made up
by shackles long paid for
watch the sail for lessons
long laid to rest in someone
else’s dream a foster
chance to manage lack
all smooth finish made
to seem seamless
or shameless is as do
nothing till few ear
drum meet air from
furnace ashes only left
the economics of that
rhetoric all burnt out
things drift from fundamental
drum beat the economy
and its manifold derivations
burn and burn as man
as cannot be
counted caution’s gone for shame
of goofing round agon
eyes fronting a blind beggar
hold up only one
thousand times will suffice
to fill his coffers
new offers accepted minutely
guard dogs stay
put coffers hold
the offertory blindsides thousands
new and used
minutes pass expended as expendable
all eyes on beggars
all ayes on biggers as betters nays
baying at every smallest gift
to any sadly lacking
prime signifier soft machined
election drooping shags
dropping flags of compliance
anyold has done will do (it’s said)
for the duration as nations
downgraded into lowest common demon
teach looking into mirrors
all decision making inward toward
granular selves
how number the grains sanded
and painted to false
full frontal exposure
expostulating values only employees
or the underclass (so many
undone…) will have (to)
hone drone personalities
painted numerous fractions
lose value
sand counts as whole
with posture undergirding
samples seen
and scene samples repeat
in ghostly (or ghastly
images alone
lonely as cloud(y)
computation (amputation
of a mind lost in memory constructs
essenes rapt with known
white carried ghosts of selves
echoed cloud imputed
lore from the unseen
memoirs lived instruction
fueled the lonesome
Douglas Barbour's books include Fragmenting Body etc, Breath Takes, &, with Sheila E Murphy, Continuations & Continuations 2; & the critical texts, Michael Ondaatje & Lyric / Anti-lyric: essays on contemporary poetry. Listen. If will be published by the University of Alberta Press, Spring 2017.
He was inducted into the Edmonton Cultural Hall of Fame in 2003.
Sheila E. Murphy has been writing poetry actively for a almost four decades and the writing lives beside her business life. A few things on that other world can be found here:
www.worktransformed.com
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Continuations CII:
spins span night and day a shot
in the dark a new sentence sent
&nbs from a hilltop sentry post
posted into the heart of
contingency far far away
a passing franchise or a franchised past
frenetic in its executable form
beneath frame’s provenance
all that shows is tarnish
despite assigned eyes sentenced to see
from points at which height render
specificity not tall
nor tailed among shadows
saddened fried
circuits break errors
broke bearers letter
perfected as to delivery
recorded almost (a)live
hades has adherents roaring
to do bitterness
apart from olive branches
that would form hypothetical agreements
at the inflection point of
barren and besieged
takes a grammatical turn in to
off ramped up rhetors
reaching back to dark
est hierarchs fallen and
jelled material lies
deny all reaching out
already pinned to amperage
the stress of self destined
for urns as quaint
as viewing audiences turned
into line drawn
heritage presumed revealed
as my sainted (h)aunt a master
full of vice all awaits
smallest innocence odor sancti
fie the newly erected self
hatred given ex(
hidden deep in the vaults
nascent treads viewable under
microscope solely play through
the awareness taint
smooth surface first
with strata stress as if
to last into selfsame
sell some internal or
eternal real a state
of lost union or multistate
solution dissolved in
rising tide of rupture
rumor as tumor expanding
seeming immune to sundry
reversals exposition
“show your work” of poison’s
dire inflection frittered
motion tremors left
to rise then rupture
explosion as new state of being
ignorant as no excuse
but used anyway an any
say something more than
bind faith bond security
laying cash on the ‘mine’
tapping plenty from up-
start point where
recusal prompts
stasis worded in common
parlance new and used
excuses vying for being left alone
why is this fell for &nbs; an eye out
off it such a shame
full but unfathomed
sea change / a singular
moment airy nothing
to say for that lone ()hood
unheld one nothing can
prevail except the arm
or fallen drawn sea light
tantrums come to naught
unless the constant present
tense smalls then and then
provoked against a past past
all remembrance fell
felt philandering minds in want
to know beyond belief
believing behaving
sadly forgetting all
aspiration trills leaves the known
fluttering beyond evocative
right brains
behavior is the white sail
drifting after mindset’s
philosophical inflection
sales in the moanblight infectious
philosophes renounce a new
metaphysics metabolize a mind
set in its way ward
ing off all actual
thinking (as perceptual real
feckless loss leaders
enunciate parables with
a mind to push back
aggregate aggression
the act of actualizing philosophy
may be moot ’though newly set in
stone(s) or stoned a loss of
real whirled balance
top spinning bottom spun
an other kind of shove
it or that
effective disparaged index
ostracism may result in
bottom feeding lack of intonation
settles in unpinned hovelry
while mood festers as though wooden
unclaimed
thoroughly unfun
unfinished always all
ready to throw off the chains
remains a dream only fostered
out laws laid down to ensure
rejection a mind made up
by shackles long paid for
watch the sail for lessons
long laid to rest in someone
else’s dream a foster
chance to manage lack
all smooth finish made
to seem seamless
or shameless is as do
nothing till few ear
drum meet air from
furnace ashes only left
the economics of that
rhetoric all burnt out
things drift from fundamental
drum beat the economy
and its manifold derivations
burn and burn as man
as cannot be
counted caution’s gone for shame
of goofing round agon
eyes fronting a blind beggar
hold up only one
thousand times will suffice
to fill his coffers
new offers accepted minutely
guard dogs stay
put coffers hold
the offertory blindsides thousands
new and used
minutes pass expended as expendable
all eyes on beggars
all ayes on biggers as betters nays
baying at every smallest gift
to any sadly lacking
prime signifier soft machined
election drooping shags
dropping flags of compliance
anyold has done will do (it’s said)
for the duration as nations
downgraded into lowest common demon
teach looking into mirrors
all decision making inward toward
granular selves
how number the grains sanded
and painted to false
full frontal exposure
expostulating values only employees
or the underclass (so many
undone…) will have (to)
hone drone personalities
painted numerous fractions
lose value
sand counts as whole
with posture undergirding
samples seen
and scene samples repeat
in ghostly (or ghastly
images alone
lonely as cloud(y)
computation (amputation
of a mind lost in memory constructs
essenes rapt with known
white carried ghosts of selves
echoed cloud imputed
lore from the unseen
memoirs lived instruction
fueled the lonesome
Douglas Barbour's books include Fragmenting Body etc, Breath Takes, &, with Sheila E Murphy, Continuations & Continuations 2; & the critical texts, Michael Ondaatje & Lyric / Anti-lyric: essays on contemporary poetry. Listen. If will be published by the University of Alberta Press, Spring 2017.
He was inducted into the Edmonton Cultural Hall of Fame in 2003.
Sheila E. Murphy has been writing poetry actively for a almost four decades and the writing lives beside her business life. A few things on that other world can be found here:
www.worktransformed.com
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