Escritoire
I pick my nibs with confraternity in full frontal view, nodding away groupthink to
bring justice cleanly into clearer view. Preferring the easy, utile, clear-barreled Bic
over a choice Mont Blanc. Simplicity offers wealth in mind as monk-dom wholly
showing through. The body’s soul keeps on the down low. An adagio honoring the
baton tap of a prodigy claiming never to be lost. Hosting frost with farthings tossed
above ensembles held apart from lace and shoulder pads to trace.
Sheila E. Murphy’s most recent book is Permission to Relax (BlazeVOX Books, 2023) She received the Gertrude Stein Award for her book Letters to Unfinished J. (Green Integer Press, 2003). Murphy’s book titled Reporting Live from You Know Where (2018)won the Hay(na)Ku Poetry Book Prize Competition from Meritage Press.