Douglas Barbour & Sheila E. Murphy
Continuations CIV:
Douglas Barbour
Sheila E. Murphy
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Continuations CIV:
a songline shudders meta
               physical violence abuts
cliffs of wind swept clean
               up end all sacred
vices that vacancy the cave
               where shadows only live
all of the beyond
               lean moments till
palpable physical endings
               as sweet shuttering
                              the live linear metabolism
of shared song
uplifted vocal eyes or touch tones
               clouds cluttered shuttered
               or sheltered shadowed
                              ombre d’espoir ou de lassitude
blues play both possibilities
               notes bent toward the futures
loud and clotted sound             rebukes
               leisure for being           a pause
between record and               portent
shell-shivering               dark places
swivel   from depth to
               driven downdraft
                              a chill there in dark
               mess massed feelings explode
energy plus a neat equation non
sense equalities would work out on
               a field noetics if only
                              minds went to work
aspiration trends toward
               mind work           alongside feelings
                              energetic sound of “ah”
                                             opposing blasphemy
equal to arithmetic undone
               as granular replenishing is spun
spanned a bridge to far to fit
thinking capped with prejudice
               all worship warring against all
a swearing in of out
                              rage again and
               again a lottery of faith unthought
wearing what is worn                 trinkets
               fought for        panned glimmer
                              dulled to sight
               no lift there
                              ridges in the brain
cemented and unfit
for any where care worn
               tatterdemalion tatter
               tale lost in translation
a fool wears out
               a mind in total tottering
                              state of the tart
and for a lark (who would not in
               vest     gesture as stressor
               in the transitive transmission
of trance               ear-to-ear
               to be “of one mind”
winning lotto blotto
a way of life savings
lost spend your thrift
               on faith less debts owed
banking on belief in a future on
               demand a lot to fake
               rake fortune’s numbered balls
pending the rift
               snowed under               angst
                              refutured into mandatory
faking it            aching underneath
               watching not making
                              trying               to consume
assume nothing the unconsumed remains
               of the day light in pocket
                              right in lockstep
a false disorder that illness instrumental
               paid out up to a near minus
                              percentage presaged
locket with a feather of hair
               crossed fingers                 talismanic
                              overlay               to falsify
               certainty               instrumental
in doling what is
               left to those never in need
a fever in deed heats up
               beats up any reach out
a speech impediment re
               lies upon a blank page
               all signing powered
                              by deepest pockets
a florid signature               leaves
               the page better than
                              impediments, the subject
of the sentence               lies upon
               unplanned illness
                              speech over (taken)
token a big pretence as
               the picture of innocence
or pure stupidity the will
               to not see or say
what opening doors (re)present
               as prospect / project(ed)
parboiled naiveté is still
               the same stupidity (un)treated
                              not to say
what all do see at some level
               worst   (to wit)               prospective
purity becomes, never becalms, false scenery
false scent nosey or noisy
               interruptions a kin(g)
slaver slicker city ways
               slither a sly routine
               right at any T in
                              tersection / surrection
les oiseaux     hover in mind
               “for them”                    kindred
                              slicked-down
causticity    routinely sly
               penthouse whispers
                              flicker through cities
and sing sing a prison
house of (bad) spirits
               a drunken gala gaga
once where no birds sang
               trees bare barren tease
               of meaning less mean
the spires instill spite
               spitting and sprees of skunking
                              barren of meaning
mean-spirited small minds
               imprison good while
               barons of bribery breach liberty
libraries might hold back words
               into a white space flat
and flattered by each visiting eye
               freed by a life sentence
               to escape into the forest
                              fears rest beyond
open            flat each view
               sentences the mind to quiet
                              selves beyond this
forest of might
               to visit space
                              a tempting blackness
opening up and out / eye
               to itemizing new ways
                              of loss / cross
purposes proposes a wonder
               lust off trail under
               ground down and out
rosters of need               in the way
               item after item
                              left right where
inconvenient and unanswered
               the trail goes on
                              apart from railing
at or against a stone wall
               ed it orally chipped
or clipped off coarse
               and captive bating
insight all eyes tu(r)ned in
               to whose bought talent (wasted
yielding sorrow               from those who
               still feel               look at the blood hues
                              of the iris
tuned to eyesight’s own lost
               magic               focusing
                              on the mere
con the feared shift of
focus (group) against a white
               (noise) background check
unbalanced or embalmed
               a floating crap games
               the system (down
and out of fluid               although
               grave     the color of daylight
                              gone to cloud coat
mirroring sans shine
               the pigment-free thin tresses
once    glistening
                              glancing bellows
fellows follows as the slay
               the slight right to (un)think
all the first fine words of cons
               institutions sequences
               sad vectors of belief
leafy days arrange (the sleep-deprived)
               thought               patterning
coins fall out               of favor
               institutions      usurp   what little
               light fail to reciprocate
a vector at a time
kept or called out or
               into new constellations
constitutions of blazed star(e)s
               blank stirs black (blocked
               thought clouded cloaked
                              in righteous aimless anger
a bounty for past tense
               that lives on apart from sensory stellar
                              lengths of wave               (blockage
confers blankness                  where aim
               defaults to prior
                              takes    defining institutions
Douglas Barbour
Sheila E. Murphy