earth has this habit of keeping happening

[Sheila Murphy]

I take it
s pulse
over and
over I
lose g
rasp of
it again
this becomes
home no
matter what
I take earth
as insinuation
of it into
my whole p
air of hands
and cup dust
whisper a
cross it to
find earth
mildly in
a state of dis
appearance
just to
take it
back and
hold it
earth repeats
me and my
overtones
and places
them back
into what
this always is


sheila e. murphy