Douglas Barbour & Sheila E. Murphy
Continuations CVII:
Douglas Barbour continues, happily retired, to live in Edmonton, Alberta. His latest book is Listen. If (University of Alberta Press 2017). his occasional reviews (mostly of poetry) appear in Eclectic Ruckus (https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/).
Sheila E. Murphy's recent books include Reporting Live from You Know Where (Meritage, i.e. Press, and xPress(ed), 2018), As If to Tempt the Diatonic Marvel from the Ivory (Broken Sleep Books, 2018), and Underscore (Luna Bisonte Prods, with K.S. Ernst, 2018).
Two volumes of Continuations have so far appeared, from University of Alberta Press.
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Continuations CVII:
how turn or turn away
that simple easy
to say nothing
on account the cost
deferred yet no deference
indifference allows
sealed future platform
terse with easy-to-remember
bullet points
let go all nuance as if
nothing required
a difference to extract the flow
chart what charred hat
in ring sing or shout a new
kind of public self
a base meant to stop all thinking
calls to arm new barbarians
beyond the walls they built themselves
elves sustain the project like
built-in correction fluid
chuffed around basic wins
in lieu of barometric guesswork
a projected public watches boundaries
chiseled by barbarians seeking stoppage
rocks fall rock fills the new emptiness
carved out of negative space
black holes pull the light through
caverns slick with blood or just tears
of rage sorrow twisted
into a new geography of fear
pacing sound within
earshot the vernacular pulls
carvings from transparent
aging twists of normal
distribution blur the corpus
rinsed of tears before new lack
a loss alas no body holds on to
sense less than sans per
or exceptions to what rules
beyond borders sensed as solid walls
gates closed as minds wont
let a new thought in
scepters leave another form
of grief still on
the table a stake is driven
in to sparta athens
deep border lineage as bewildering
as sensory arrest
warranted but un-guaranteed
incremental awareness shutdown
a new kind of filibuster
mouths open wide yet nothing
emerges a heavy breath
(ing) fetid thoughtrot
ephemera grow wicked
cool guard dogs with nothing
to save voiceovers
underpaid just mouth the goods
warrants out for various unrests
for the sake of nothing much
how does untouchable mean in which warped
hire-archy a rush to mountain
topsy-turvy economies
of say watchdogs walls wills
power(ed) perverted
parlayed with all fixes in
attainment unwatched
red versions vertically
arrayed part will
part fixed desire to shun
the mean from usual roadway
en route to the spire
one breath in one breath out
so slow a high heave
of rhetoric into abyss
of reason transformed by a right
cross doubled down on
a t-bonehead butchery
pulse tentative reveals
the present tense constant
season formed double bass
low point transitive
the right time placed
within earshot of ensemble
hearts raised in song or tune
d in to something like
a harmony (k)not heard
fit to be t(r)ied a side
by side tap dance
tripped into trapped into tripe
unity does not harm
sensory scansion opens
the trap to yield
surprising richness
a flow-through
something to abide
withy what s wanted but
wanting waning
a shaming moment
airy nothing s melee
speech spat
sputtering engine falter
alterations make the dress
not puttering from shop
to shop leeward
a secondary antonym for
happy is divided
(t)hereby fallen
ad dress nausea m aches mere
speech suffer ever greater loss
memory says history stays
boxed away hidden then
there on a s(h)elf
imposed upon
utmost leveling of historical
renditions poses as
truth in boxes put away
as if unseen grief
meant stashing means
certain removal
enter the archives and burn
maybe turn toward
off license to kill one
more resolution all resolve
gone into the whirled
off whitewash
till the oil solve resolve
wash wards off white
one way
baggage no way entry
works no one
works nothing
her or there upon
what argument for or a
gain st all reason
able to dig ever deeper
holes in ground less
rhetoric of savage re turns
age brings depth or
repetition witness
holes in this yard
defining where (not)
to walk thereby
stalling the proceedings
preceding the stalling
makes for good bad
relations to all wheres
and here to fors
cant told each single lack
of honesty so loud now
hearing trumps sense
of prosperous accounting
that pinpoints incremental
cover taking
poise be held
from be yond
nothing holds over yonder wall
harmony slide into wails
played out into a moil
of angers unaimed
unnamed so many strings
attached to what dark whom
monetize regardless
of the wailing (gerunds
weigh nothing meandering
as they do through
clouds of gravity
darkening the unpaved spaces
traces of too much weight of
gravy train for long distance
gain the winners circle
shrinking economies sabotaged
always from within
those streets with no shame
increasing distances convey
trace elements unalloyed
wrinkling comics
highlight hamster wheels
poor economic news
encircling vested sabotage
Douglas Barbour continues, happily retired, to live in Edmonton, Alberta. His latest book is Listen. If (University of Alberta Press 2017). his occasional reviews (mostly of poetry) appear in Eclectic Ruckus (https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/).
Sheila E. Murphy's recent books include Reporting Live from You Know Where (Meritage, i.e. Press, and xPress(ed), 2018), As If to Tempt the Diatonic Marvel from the Ivory (Broken Sleep Books, 2018), and Underscore (Luna Bisonte Prods, with K.S. Ernst, 2018).
Two volumes of Continuations have so far appeared, from University of Alberta Press.
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