 Visual artist fracks the lay-by While listening to sheers flutter at the open window Watches a lad walking shoulders slumped arms unmoving torso bobbing up and down as he forwards along The look of obedience crystallized in one freeze frame Does the boy know what he is walking away from versus advancing is there a reason A simple rectangular fixed frame safekeeping perhaps a secret And can distance loosen tension between desire for destination and dissolving behind the curtains The threat of malice versus misericordia a white unfurled once crisp cap flung to the invisible muses How once pristine the view of simple shoulders and the breathing of one boy in view Sheila E. Murphy Poems have appeared in Poetry, Hanging Loose, Fortnightly Review, and numerous others. Most recent books are Permission to Relax (BlazeVOX Books, 2023) October Sequence: Sections 1-51 (mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press, 2023), and Sostenuto (Luna Bisonte Prods (2023). Murphy received the Gertrude Stein Award for 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 (U.S.A.) and xPress(ed) (Finland). Her Wikipedia page can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Murphy Image: Anton Sobotyak / Unsplash
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