the square footage of my heart
rife with affection leaves
no room for the methodical
low-meaning tasks
forced granularity beneath
the shine imposed upon an undeserving
population of ingredients
that make their way in to my
ravenous young appetite
for living near the hungry
and the upstarts who insist on justice
for renditions of new heart

there is no space left
for mirror chips and sadness
undeserving windowspace that sprawls
across the artificial tidiness of
boundaries that chisel
distance between intensity and lukewarm
habit of half noticing where passion
could be frantic in its overtures
to live among the signs in daily life
of rigor and the poses
that reflect to full perfection
every noticeable venture meaning
sacraments are here in voice
and dream equivalent to surface
stories being made within the full reach
of eternity

sheila e. murphy

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