May margins hold your dross of choice
and limbo well accrue toward cushioning
reflexive motion passing for accomplishment.

May tacit bravery be known as the Wallendas
showing off their grammar and good taste
while we sip sap as if such slush
might offer needed quietude.

May toffy taste of supple young momentum
dreamed along moist atmosphere of wood
and mood and synthesis.

May distance pacify your tendency
to live long sans lungs glutted
with spores accumulating
as the gulls of dream go by
and timbre just resuscitates
the drive-by natterings still short on cash
as demigods with tats that lack great art

May wind be met by gravity that holds
the sun in place where practice
churns redacted feeling
soon shoved out on stage to be consumed
or poked by regulation sticks and storied stones
that once flanked riverbed
where tones of motion thinned
receptive earshot.

sheila e. murphy

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