poems || Sheila Murphy

Steerage / Storage

On and off my back,

a self

suffices

Chanteuses

whose inv-okay

delay

Cylindrical totemic

silos

perhaps sway

The long hypotenuse

precluding an

occlusion

Won Over(t)

Eternal PAC

belabors elevation

versus splay

the you amounts to

such an after power

astride lined stratospheric

turns of salve

sweet

dignity cuts mind

from quaint

pointings

with perspective

overturned by ink

ridden halfway

home with

afterminds thought

to depth

until charisma

b(l)inds