Portrait of Sheila E. Murphy
Flagellated joy suddenly humming: grammar's feelings clenched and
urinating in the desert of seeing into the feebly foaming motion of night's
nest, edible routed ear, neck signature dinged and decaying, peeking with
disgust along the rim of the hysterical tundra, nearly being there: perquisite
eucalyptus, magnolia, raffia, ilex, berry, aigrette, pheasant feathers, shimmery
butchery, barbed mish-mash within the sentences of veined meat, a gaggle of
thorns, hours out of wet light: shrinking subterfuge, leaping off branches
of tormented moments, assays enemas' commas obtruding on the impure identity of
morning's bedewed pistache, nestled pallor, compressed circumstances in
collusion with an agitated piece of effectual dustiness, winded hassles,
floating rectitude leaking, collapsing: repeated hoarding stuns resemblances,
unimaginable words' bosoms' bones, diminishing gradually when rambling brackets
of gold-fringed blossoms are tormented to the core, aghast: branches of night
transcend the estrangement of the moment outside light's agonized cadence:
Bosoms transcend the daunting boxes that billowed when they came with an
empty pyx:
nobody divided the retracting sediments on the nakedness of nowhere:
extrapolated extraction-swerves are undefiled tenses suppressed, debilitated
lips, stunned ghosts' naked diversions: wretched wheezes, interchangeable gapes,
rasping lovers locating the sneer of vaporous consternation in the quarry of
holiness, the languor of a diamond cube: why: the metal of breath woven
endlessly, copious dosages, rectangular apodal afterthoughts blackened: finally,
desperately, ah, wounds insinuate pangs in flames coinciding with the length and
breadth of affectation, rupture of aloes arising: squandered stag rusted hollow,
nuanced, tilted down, grasping, curling: welded drone receding, lilacs in
denial, induced stares lightening desire: pentagonal tongue collapsing: useless
spores of unmeaning numbers often limpid, very lonely: cursive stuff enters
swooning lines' defunct white noise melting, mingling in pre-delineated flames'
transient intimacy: anguish of repose:
Define grief secretly broached: suppressed sun flecks, forget-me-nots
stabbingly stitched, grieving, sighing, bemoaning pierced emotions, illusion's
scribbled noise: it is eaten: scathes: chasms of textured darkness: outflanked
fiery eyebrows prostrated obliquely, naive motions, umbilical limbs all around:
infringed dialect submerged in banished palms: not alone, pretty soon, reopened
voices' fir in derision, as it is to be, ample, idle, only impetuses of blushing
revenge fawning: another subject, mine too, debilitated: intense sheer lines
leap: wrinkled mechanisms attaching themselves to difficult eruptions, only
hollow rectilinear arrowheads under the savage robin's egg blue sky: tattered
breath fiercely glimpsed, displaced not at all: falsetto shadows liquefied,
flattened out--joyousness subtracted: it feels dusk belittles the damp antennae
eluding the fraudulent delirium of the crackling entities of pivoting existence:
to be almost trash in paradise, intact motionlessness: this is not you in a
jagged meadow thirsting for confetti, the ultimate inevitable: exactly
contaminated tubes swooning out of lovers' dawns, malignant sky of foolscap,
ragged parchment, poignant in derision:
Not even differentiated hyacinths' diminished wounds glowing, trickling in,
musky: abandoned faucet: immense, whenever it could be severed, no difference,
creeping, rock chatter: not that it could be thistle protuberances, sawdust of
treetops: density easily knows the grinding cavity, the invisible scent of
subsumed parameters squandered, coded inanity: snapshot prop spiraling a lethal
mildness, light sign of wincing whitecaps' fetid wakes litigating the curves in
the breakable scum: transformed cobwebs confiscating the corrosive hours,
brittle pretexts bickering: I, too, dislike Satan's semen: blushing shoals
leaning on sheaves of air, displaced: apogee of the felt odor's chilly omission,
very nearly this voice perfectly arduous and figural: in this be heartbreak's
curse in the scented niche: identical: it is as it is: no one can know:
underneath, gazing undone, ecstatic lips never losing their impotence in
strung-out mists' cawing daisies, excavated from out of the boneyard dew:
Imprinted, foreshadowed, decaying in technicolor, achingly shining,
dissolving: styrofoam pillars sunken, scruples of radioactive words
contaminated: crimson nails' defunct glowing, as if ideation-yawpers, in
illuminated goggles, slashed the reluctance of the outrages of the silvery
light's faint splendor: remembered ember of the vortex, dejected scar, not that
it can be: not to be there hourly, naturally stripped in the vehicle of boredom,
feelingly assimilating alphabets of malversation: will they know peeling window
panes, starlights' mnemonic blooms: the rectangular soil is disturbed,
retracted, a meatless sap, acid clot: dazed curve glazed, ambiguously dazzling
nerve's spume: aspirated chaos, grammatically eaten carcass of caresses:
madrigal extrapolated, uttered, undefiled: devised joy: heartbeat, glory teeth:
unpleasantly upside down pleasure, tumbling pebbles penetrating the limp
structure of memory's hole: frosted glass breath trajectories hardened
particularly to be not there: pressed sounds eventual apotheosis, no chance of
bruised sprinkles: exactness inserted, faked:
Hear it, sunbeams out of love: felt dots pretending forehead waves,
grandeur of clenched emptiness: if it is never, I cannot forget it: actual
description shedding angles, oftener sublime light's thicket, perfectly
calculable stutter of abating mud: perpendicular, disjunction flesh: they could
not be very comfortingly unintelligible: which is it to be, wrath of cerulean
wheatfields' fallopian leaves: darker maniacal crackling, stuttering carapace,
sleepy quincunxes, aching rain, graceful stillness, marigold exposure: they were
coming apart against the spacious factory, in the wake of lightness gawking:
they were lascivious, on the wane, plaiting, lapsed: delicate illusions
rearranged, maybe oblique ambiance swooning, low dosages of the ardor of
eternity's cells stoking the throes of intimidated puddles inseminated with
kisses: sullen diamonds winking, smeared spatters renamed light grey, rubbed
raw: merciless abruptness sharpens the resemblance, the breath of the instant is
silence, a paler typo: copious hay and emptiness suffocating while
disadumbrating the square root of manure's winged lightning-flashes:
Simultaneously sutured sparks flickering impermanence against haughty
crawling words' hard glow, never insolvent, always wafting aeration: here,
blurred, striated: to be sustained, sparks cleave sieved, not envious, a neon
ferment of stinking whispers puffing, ulcered, coming from not far away: by
then, the tinny anomaly can never be opposed to tutelary irises, speechless as
you can see: it is very nearly often wrested from the moonlight when perforated
appurtenances are divided apostrophes' warped gumptions, verbless marblings
visceral gliding, barely dusk in spits presence: never: I know, whores'
recoiling autumns: the rut uncurls, apparently subcutaneous in tattered flashes:
lost eyelash in the machinery of foraging backwards: unapproachable crack:
fluency of gravity: when they feel anxious, unread, the footstools of memory
discern your wrist: it can be decimated swallowing, brazenly supercharged,
perfectly pulsating and prolonged, a pale footnote to the curving seizure of the
text, the enduring insertion of metonymics' magnetic alacrities attributed to
the apotheosis of possessiveness inflicted on the laburnum air:
Sparsely, churlishly vivid vagueness absolutely unassimilable: shining
incisions, perimeters, particularly startled declensions in ditches surging
against opulent fuzz: the unreal: outside, the skin of monotony swells like
vocabulary, coalesced turd colorings signature: voiceless sap dust oozing
indistinctly, and not only accruing the throbbing disturbances of tangled flaws'
germination drainage, corpses of night's thirst, thick conduits in the bubbled
lair:
undone: woke up: startlingly electric blue slanting softness, demented, a
sacred reaction to oblivion's abandoned cords: disinterred chords clanging in
the yawning darkness, bungalow of nowhere sucking on a bride's hourglass:
disjointed autumn's sticky colors, precisely giddy rivulets drained out and
relighted impatiently, dead paradise's arc doomed: can you see the unnecessary
premonitions: I peed some icky stuff on my curdled pantaloons, prattling flute
wail dribbling, crisscrossed, devouring mesh trudging echoes, mouth wind glory:
the uncertainties of tergiversations: to be nearly deciphered in the tedious
absence of mirrors, the calque of bleached solitude: plainly there is this
difference between breaths, raveling speech stranded inside the lonely cadence
of trickling sludge, starlight's instants in solitude, heaving vulgarly:
disclosed differences desiring sieved wombs, the semblances of disturbed
decisions' hysterical bulges dripping precisely quiet, soiled blond ink:
Hole artifice, reassembled heads circulating around ruptured acolytes
milking arpeggios, barely a conjugation weaning labyrinth aloud: out of earshot,
unanimous sacs unthought, appositely ecstatic perdure: postulated loss changed,
undecoded fingernails' ashes, colorless etching of a chanced glare undone
resembling bare words of praise: trench mouth silence tumbling mica's
recalcitrant impunity, never being cautiously questioned, quietly winking
auscultation: salubrious bib of differences between repeated wastes cleaving
apart, all in all: sun hurtling, not very likely quivering, disoriented: hourly
canticles of shrunken tenses, betrayed handwriting of unleashed magnificence
coinciding around the molecular idleness of sunlight peeping into the
wretchedness of antiquity, revealing lead pencils shedding no particular
cancerous notations: perversely nondescript: subordinate notes colliding,
indisputable sticks vibrating along the shore of a hastily sullen seascape,
sunrise from eons ago: dead ache seen as it was in patches, as it was to be:
jackal of beauty retracted, tainted, inversely multicolored, exposed: a wet
arrangement, plainly buffeted crevices, embellished parentheses, plain
forgetfulness:
Dourness tinkles, affected by it: asking not at all: it is an apparent
interruption, leaning on codicils beforehand: muffled compunction: what about
it: impenetrably oblong, ingenious intrusion: breathing propositions shrieking:
swooning lichen bone, inaudible dilemma attributed to afflictions of joy,
swerving moments transcended, gradually diminished: ah, throbbing twigs swaying
above the diminished bosom, spirals' pangs, listening seeds: dead wood wholly
saturated on the periphery of being construed as the spindles of a flapping
waterfall repeatedly indifferent to loneliness, yet nervous: exactly as it was,
impending crux of the root of Jesse, gradual green atrocities sharply melting
madrigals: flames of wave-pierced illusions: technical squiggles, open-mouthed
wherewithal: dosages of wounds, hollow gloss of impure sounds: undefiled under
the ailanthus: suddenly swerving to and fro, synthetic branches bending low in
adoration, coming to see the audacity of pleasure fatigued, the breathing tissue
of memory coiled, deflected inflections, the wooden bone of death speckled and
broken: holy vertical and perpendicular bosom, airy pangs of evergreens' swollen
clutter, inert nouns dazed: waking pod, mired cortex: I desire an object within,
rarer than raw, that reeks of the beyond: bluntly belied, stirring: imbibe:
elbow murmur, insect twine braided under collapsed sentences, bruised flank of
dispossessed occurrences, shrivelling shaft of sounds, the luggage of
language:
--Bob BrueckL