Sheila E. Murphy & Douglas Barbour
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 CXX:
see sea change all
ships abandoned there
s having loss
as leader chip
off the hold
blocked by failed regs
hip of the lock step
ailing process fosters
motion albeit
fragile complicit
rustling paper thin shorelined
broad leaves
bread loaves
water to wine a gift
economy / forget it
for getting help
s a story now
denied by reader/ship
overtime the water
drifts commingling with
a storied atmosphere
pace of the whipsaw blends
with wind
slipping past
tense a kind of
lack of kind
ness monsters of
their ids no kids safe
but any embryo
a yoyo punishment
stirring the ruckus con brio
shifts the rills
to rushing tones
to fast track
whole notes
dis guised as creed
sonant greed sonar speed
a thing below beyond
belief system
(auto)matic manic manacled
as mind full (of
dark (no) matter
shade trees
still raw
ticklish topics green clad
spark mindful
sound shifted
to matter although nicked
damned dimestore theologies
occlude it
s a cloud (in)formation
shade of shed of shoddy workmanship
as in (or if) a wonky construction
made of iron clod faith
dramatis personae blinkered
blip once more
strictures hamstring critical
th ought pseudo faith
projected challenges hope
to a duel with charity
as chosen only a chase
man handled banked
on IT the intel
a lost leader shipped off
sent a long way beyond
the field of empathy
hastening to be imagined
yonder where the tipoff
blades its way into
the poor cloth of diminution
covering the misguided
leaders banked on
backed into a closer closet
that darkness seen as out
there elsewhere
in someone else s hands arms
manned up but silent
as more grave tidings
if an ark then
pairs dot the line toward
safety to rave reviews
a coalition of the tilling
of the s oil
backing away from now
into a future passed (by
whose choice chance
chased from the inn
er sanctum to let
them eat coke trade
market forces out
proclaiming chastity
in lieu of charity
neglect stings
one plus one whose sanctity
s defunct with only
echoes in the coffers
offers minorities hear
they must not refuse
the refuse they obviously chose
to bear the bare
necessary recessionary
twelve steps programmed
cessation works quiet works
ear training supersedes
all other modes
bearing witness
to the stated versus the state
gram by gram
mar what s heard sheared
the sheep look down
avert the eyes
the ayes for something in
vested interests
gains as given (grabbed
equals owned no equal sign
means I for an aye
mean spirited
as in do you take
to be
your owned etcetera
adding up a bonus plus
a bonus plus
bone um
pire judgment burned
vanitas vanquished
a genial lie
no though of intimacy
fine white lace of branch
the vase with traces
of a gesture seen felt left
upon a surface changed
within us
there s hot glazed lines
broke baked mounted
as a trophy cracked
that s age or anger
made a puzzle
scattered (scarred
bits requires standing
back to see a whole
clay being
and the surface
not the essence quite
shiny dust
rust a musty odor
essential to what
revivification old thought
worst thought first
found rooting in (for)
another ancient dumpster
doorways revive motion
within
our history
the sense of taking
perfectly equivalent
to giving
way back (where or)
when men
sang a song
along the lines of lost rituals
so much bad faith
enacted for (but against?
anticipated life spa
n longer than
imagined want
self c enters the draw
and now gathering
lifeless force
face d off of the hat
e motion to rescind
first words worst
thought raised up
wards against
what projected fear
gray autumn scatters
quiet then the cinders
sound the crush
of wheels venturing
to raise prospects
of change by chance
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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