Douglas Barbour & Sheila E. Murphy
Continuations CIV:
Douglas Barbour lives in Edmonton, Alberta. His latest book is Listen. If (University of Alberta Press 2017). His occasional reviews of (mostly poetry) appear in Eclectic Ruckus (https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/).
Sheila E. Murphy actively writes and draws from her base in Phoenix, Arizona. Her consulting work involves a fusion of theory and practice in organizational design and development.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Murphy
Two volumes of Continuations have appeared from University of Alberta Press.
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Continuations CIV:
a songline shudders meta                physical violence abuts cliffs of wind swept clean                up end all sacred vices that vacancy the cave                where shadows only live all of the beyond                lean moments till palpable physical endings                as sweet shuttering                               the live linear metabolism of shared song uplifted vocal eyes or touch tones                clouds cluttered shuttered                or sheltered shadowed                               ombre d’espoir ou de lassitude blues play both possibilities                notes bent toward the futures loud and clotted sound             rebukes                leisure for being           a pause between record and               portent shell-shivering               dark places swivel   from depth to                driven downdraft                               a chill there in dark                mess massed feelings explode energy plus a neat equation non sense equalities would work out on                a field noetics if only                               minds went to work aspiration trends toward                mind work           alongside feelings                               energetic sound of “ah”                                              opposing blasphemy equal to arithmetic undone                as granular replenishing is spun spanned a bridge to far to fit thinking capped with prejudice                all worship warring against all a swearing in of out                               rage again and                again a lottery of faith unthought wearing what is worn                 trinkets                fought for        panned glimmer                               dulled to sight                no lift there                               ridges in the brain cemented and unfit for any where care worn                tatterdemalion tatter                tale lost in translation a fool wears out                a mind in total tottering                               state of the tart and for a lark (who would not in                vest     gesture as stressor                in the transitive transmission of trance               ear-to-ear                to be “of one mind” winning lotto blotto a way of life savings lost spend your thrift                on faith less debts owed banking on belief in a future on                demand a lot to fake                rake fortune’s numbered balls pending the rift                snowed under               angst                               refutured into mandatory faking it            aching underneath                watching not making                               trying               to consume assume nothing the unconsumed remains                of the day light in pocket                               right in lockstep a false disorder that illness instrumental                paid out up to a near minus                               percentage presaged locket with a feather of hair                crossed fingers                 talismanic                               overlay               to falsify                certainty               instrumental in doling what is                left to those never in need a fever in deed heats up                beats up any reach out a speech impediment re                lies upon a blank page                all signing powered                               by deepest pockets a florid signature               leaves                the page better than                               impediments, the subject of the sentence               lies upon                unplanned illness                               speech over (taken) token a big pretence as                the picture of innocence or pure stupidity the will                to not see or say what opening doors (re)present                as prospect / project(ed) parboiled naiveté is still                the same stupidity (un)treated                               not to say what all do see at some level                worst   (to wit)               prospective purity becomes, never becalms, false scenery false scent nosey or noisy                interruptions a kin(g) slaver slicker city ways                slither a sly routine                right at any T in                               tersection / surrection les oiseaux     hover in mind                “for them”                    kindred                               slicked-down causticity    routinely sly                penthouse whispers                               flicker through cities and sing sing a prison house of (bad) spirits                a drunken gala gaga once where no birds sang                trees bare barren tease                of meaning less mean the spires instill spite                spitting and sprees of skunking                               barren of meaning mean-spirited small minds                imprison good while                barons of bribery breach liberty libraries might hold back words                into a white space flat and flattered by each visiting eye                freed by a life sentence                to escape into the forest                               fears rest beyond open            flat each view                sentences the mind to quiet                               selves beyond this forest of might                to visit space                               a tempting blackness opening up and out / eye                to itemizing new ways                               of loss / cross purposes proposes a wonder                lust off trail under                ground down and out rosters of need               in the way                item after item                               left right where inconvenient and unanswered                the trail goes on                               apart from railing at or against a stone wall                ed it orally chipped or clipped off coarse                and captive bating insight all eyes tu(r)ned in                to whose bought talent (wasted yielding sorrow               from those who                still feel               look at the blood hues                               of the iris tuned to eyesight’s own lost                magic               focusing                               on the mere con the feared shift of focus (group) against a white                (noise) background check unbalanced or embalmed                a floating crap games                the system (down and out of fluid               although                grave     the color of daylight                               gone to cloud coat mirroring sans shine                the pigment-free thin tresses once    glistening                               glancing bellows fellows follows as the slay                the slight right to (un)think all the first fine words of cons                institutions sequences                sad vectors of belief leafy days arrange (the sleep-deprived)                thought               patterning coins fall out               of favor                institutions      usurp   what little                light fail to reciprocate a vector at a time kept or called out or                into new constellations constitutions of blazed star(e)s                blank stirs black (blocked                thought clouded cloaked                               in righteous aimless anger a bounty for past tense                that lives on apart from sensory stellar                               lengths of wave               (blockage confers blankness                  where aim                defaults to prior                               takes    defining institutions
Douglas Barbour lives in Edmonton, Alberta. His latest book is Listen. If (University of Alberta Press 2017). His occasional reviews of (mostly poetry) appear in Eclectic Ruckus (https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/).
Sheila E. Murphy actively writes and draws from her base in Phoenix, Arizona. Her consulting work involves a fusion of theory and practice in organizational design and development.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Murphy
Two volumes of Continuations have appeared from University of Alberta Press.
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