pry loose qualitets of fortressy few blues
who would listen to the cinders of pernicion?
not the lazy lie-detect-
and not the suede of ride 'em knockout

my take is that the swans are free of cluck
and maturation wants to stomach
blotto shields of puppy laced insignia
these lonely miles along protesting regents in fair
cloaks

it's wall-to-wall infection here
within the ranch squalls
of protectorally too-plowed fields
where revenue is purple

and our saving grace
here in the midregional morass of stakes
we ask freedom from malignant stowage
forfeited in prior lives

by prior egress splintering
an early wall adjacent
to another fever
wet with cause

sheila e. murphy

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