Parentheses
Parent
Pa
Rent
If a poem has accommodation
For illegal loggers (***)(***)@+000000
If and when and then and how
The host kisses the worm
If the knowing worm
cradles
The rent
In the womb of the tomb
--- Obododimma.
Sheila Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: cradle pray as if (I breathe
within the confines of your face
for us beyond (the only face I see
the seeming (owned injurious historic teachings
accidental (I begin again repeatedly
numinous (attraction is a construct
or overwrought (host pattern worn
lines assumed (inbred obedience to precedent
destined to touch (prove wrong some way of knowing
to parlay code (already there
into parentheses (as nice a home as womb
sheila e. murphy
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Obododimma Oha
PhD (Stylistics/War Rhetoric)
MSc (Legal, Criminological, & Security Psychology)
Senior Lecturer in Stylistics, Semiotics, & Discourse Analysis
Department of English, University of Ibadan
&
Fellow, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies
University of Ibadan, NIGERIA
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