her specialty is taking something not
worth doing and then doing it
to perfection that passes Plato
and all things platonic
she loses sense of time and space
while honing
every previously stranded particle
into a steadfast system
certain to evaporate from memory

meanwhile a lord-made day
upon us opens
vowel sounds and protective
consonants to lift above
the heads and minds
of people thinking speaking
quiet and perhaps immune
to where they fit

sheila e. murphy

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