Rumors Flying in Helvetica
A Sequence Poem in Ninety-Eight Parts
© Sheila E. Murphy 2001


1.

Seems assuagy to be romping so
Superfluously forth,
Equally brief to pounce on tort law
Stretch the taffy truth push/pull,
Elongate fractions, till whole numbers
Simply croon with legroom mantras folded
To meet depth wings in extension

2.

Mild Midas frocks give gloves
Their only sutured weather,
Mockingbirds grow champion nest holdings,
Then bare-breast toward life forms
Invested in the torsion one neglects.
Why south of here is there electric staunch?

3.

Options made to fit our frock know dampness.
Laudatory eminence presides.
The dated syllables conform to other
Vignettes swarthy as our light years from
Indecent press of stature.

4.

Poses can be passed on to fruition if you just
Look sideways first, the numerator blands its way
To the equation, pausing to enlist
Enlightenment.

5.

So many concepts, and the textures
Merely whisper lengths of line.
Give me a noun without the language,
Laws express results come to the same
Ends when these glyphs take on
The physical ultime and start for glow.

6.

Earned income salvages a rigor
Plucked from dross.
The river stalls our swim across by virtue
Of direction that opposes wanton fakes.
A hybrid cost of doing business subsumes
Brevity and limberlost, so girls stay plucky.
Girls instead of ripening to service press into
Legitimate slot-keeping.

7.

When we tame our frills there slakes
An individual resilience,
Now and at the hour of hostage taking
Dwells our sultry depth,
Our linger-lore, our spelling basket,
Full of wedlock stakes

8.

Maturity is overridden in the code,
And what's rewarded sings,
And what's rewarded severs what is
Real as guesses lanking toward
Aplomb, for lack of better evidence.

9.

The range of motion craves our laced
Return. One glow of sycamore retreats
Into a torsioned memory, memoirs
Seem dim upon the gratis lake.
The squall opens its light to places
In the operative homes and gardens
Flowering in cortices as indicators
Swarm around the beeline waving to
Semantics.

10.

Whatever's moist suffices in the heat lamp of a good day,
Supplements incur a breath of light,
Some lace, and factors magnified to half
Separations as the face printed on the cloth.

11.

More intrigued by than interested in paint,
Immersion is the sole manner of learning.
Language sebastians how / where / if / and toward
Quaint eras of robustion.

12.

Straight lines find their way to angular disjunction.
Affinities need be dusted off.
This person ratchets up the field of
Plucked guitar, sensed guitar, refresher course,
Shrill voice not yet sixty maybe

13.

Overindulgence maxes out on white chiffon.
Has this been considered?
Change the subject
At least once,
Open the lamp lank.
Clears the way,
Who wants to,
Snuff how much need for
How much adulation
Vital to global,
Glottal stops.
Snapshot, look lively for once.

14.

Everyone cease speaking at once.
Source (plink), do not be distracted.
Feedback is for limp drives.
We are counterproductively affording
Information in the window,
Not right now.

15.

Pass-through, baste.
Give spoils stencils.
Live to see this walking in the wrong
Direction.

16.

Pax hominy
Bus


17.

Arrange once
Nine, twelve, other numbers
On the houseboat,
Where's the lake?

18.

Greatest/faint or gaveled ripely fit into your
Palm of handsome spring make-
Shift pretty urban lined
As gizmos go so goes the rub pulled out
From under

19.

Summarize in exchange
Excuse / spill / spoil
Affirm / equate / explore
Appear one way
Problem/ yours // forgers / not mine

20.

Walked by the dry to
Furnished situation, term limits,
Viral dweeb,
Stop being stylish.
Ratify, appear, retract.
Spackle the phases white.
I'm doing this not to impress you.
I'm doing this to be clear and leave
the past the past.

21.

Think fast, set your alarm.
Talk twice before dumbstruck
versed vocabulary's
Whiny little bratwurst
Calls and agrees, finds who is lost.

22.

Blood scalds the fresh skin innerly.

23.

Voila mistral, flowing gap
Within spores bounce-worth possibly
A quilled gown (obviously a low level
works, am sticking to . . .

24.

Whose mission is
This all-glum gray point
Vastness,
Which two lost to stricken
Voyage.

25.

Get past it, how to feel
Exactly valuing an opportunity
Plight-prone, glorify the vault
Lash marks touching.

26.

Cannot forestall reversal when you
Change the words not once.

27.

Appreciate your coming down well-oiled leaked
Show horse less essential,
Talking subject
Of the sentence, cannot vote to fray
Appearancing if yelling calls out
Expectation.

28.

Northerly integrity, abstention rocks
Implicitly.

29.

Send a message is this personal he's great
That's why I . . .


30.

Bait shrinks pencil stubs
Have known a couple
All along,
Problems lacking long life,
Anything or anymore,
The burden of being on one's own
That sideways twist,
Enter the white door placed once where.

31.

Emance is north nice quick state flag
Who wants what,
How intellectual are you fruitlessly
Around the neck

32.

Need / opportunity / the other way
Merci, in all simplicity
Wash down what is not already clean
I have ceased caring
What you've wrought.
Insistence
In the form of a depression,
Who's behind all this betrayal?

33.

Must feel loved on the double without
Provocation.


34.

I normally fail to hurry myself home
The day rules daylight (what's in store
Alfredo) modestly remedial
In fact

35.

Spring hastens a secure form of cleansing
Transport, outsource, counsel, spring

36.

If I whisper, will you care
When I confess, will it be to you or to
Myself


37.

Who has fun yet there are clauses
Underneath the mag wheel magnifying glass
Etc.

38.

Chainlight, spores, repletional intake

Proof is on the way

How does trance take place

39.

Nice to talk or not, but paint while
Talking, nice to let go for a while,
Political extravagance pays dividends
No mind, the ruse becomes a terrible
Defeat planned to divorce the fever from
The frame, and what else has to
Matter anymore, the fluency is all
The rage.

40.

I'm timing you, report
Exactly what you know, relentingly,
Or so the rumor goes into
A spindrift many nubile
Glories . . .

41.

Pronunciation strops a cello's hold on
Ventures / must be done, where were you when
Cancellation / gesture / salt
Move like a swollen instrument's tawned song.

42.

Kismet virtually shrieks regardless
Of whether I believe I'm listening

43.

Accentuated norse neglect
As posses have been
Taken leave of priests, kept to scheduled
Springtime in arrears
As hedons glow.

44.

But is the tool tight-fitting, to include room for
Conforming intrinsicity when / if nigh
Places are rubbed red to be complete
Delinquent madrigals?

45.

Alight on
How white the slim lines on the cloth

46.

What is confusing, temptation ruins the cold log,
Tried on the effortful array
Whose fresco
Have we silhouetted?

47.

Not this version, this verse,
Tressed because of the alongside
Breaking news elected to revise
The trifling sample size contrarian,
So say the valuation schemes.

48.

A version to have tamed address wall's
Color of the meager disappointment's
Elasticity, a strong weave,
Single loop, sensation.

49.

Fractions I like, serapes I like, my younger
Also current photographs I like also.
Fractions substitute unnaturally for
Domain names, sugar's recent giveaway,
Are you unlatched like thunder any
Surrogation chants,
is this why wine
Removes us from enumerated things
We used to love?

50.

Everything seems so agreeably unlovely
And I'm confident as well as grateful
I'm alive amid the smoke and
Taken craft cares sturdy as digression
Plump with years enough to go around
In circular amazement.


51.

So the tiny fleurs are spacious
Seeming on the tiny palette.

52.

White recedes after
Billowing pink's small housing,
Moth's supple wind sock.

53.

Talent we are bathed in rises, falls.
Eruptions hasten not to have seemed
Accidental in imagination flocked with
Pious heat / the wick apparently indulges us.
I play tapes in my sleep.

54.

The glistening begins to simplify the show.
All northerly epitomes slow to a
Sweet crawl, maybe dowries follow
Logically, maybe tire tracks viscerally
Lower probability of something's
Sifting what we are from what
We know.

55.

Astride a hilltop, the affordable
Wave heaven, mantra after megaphone

56.

Mimetic seizures leave off planting not in focus.

57.

There used to be wings glowing

Pastures once
Forsaken now
Bloomed willingly,
Unwillingly at last
Shaping the velvety
Commingling before
Buffering the noon.

58.

Your guess as good
Nervous yeses mean little more than
Yards full of too-supple weeds
As yet unplucked
There will be dancing
Mid-mind
Magnified.


59.

There will be host prints given in
To ballroom chapters
Not enough to modify.

60.

The imagination in my lumbered heart lined
With recessionary strictures
Divan-prone, perhaps, and just as likely,
Wingspan sprees its way to forelace
As we hasten to the habit of affordance
Why and why not very
Grimmacing at the unlesses of first
Person singular rotunda held aloof with
Fallen semblance.

61.

To have reflected
Vibrant toy lanes for gargantuan
Repletion to employ the basic brick-
Lings as a function of infallible finesse

62.

The people loft themselves toward
Obsequion, or not.
If this is leverage, my name is not
Tattooed on your forbears.
Lanes seem full of prior rain rumored
To be approaching fine extinction
In the form of perfect hairdo
Where a sprig of fairy dust is
Tossed to mesh with heather and
The Spain canary at the far end of
The spectrum saxophone

63.

As treasure
And triomphe,
Why not
Reverberate for now, right where you are.

64.

If ladling emanates frustration from your
Better judgment, call the factions what
You will, they laminate their bleeding
More than you occur to others in your
Path, plain persons with a lick of
An imagination scurrying to be rubbed
The right way.

65.

Her instincts remain
Wrong for the troubled audience, her
Seasoning remunerates a sense of
Viaduction in plain flesh, her
Apropos-of-anything indifference retains
Its leggy shelf life, this becomes
The zither fallen down the staircase,
Plunked one thinks where it will remain
Useful to the masses matter of factorially
Pictured in the National Geographic
Where someone wants something not
Pressed into the photograph but
Felt there, ravenously opening its
Gestures to reflect sincerity distinct
From social codes.

66.

People speak
Languages apart from dreams that we
Persist in having regardless of the
Fanzines loaded in the truck.

67.

Rumors flying in Helvetica subsume
The rungs of consciousness, applause in
Principle still stings, the few of us
On speaking terms arrest our tendency to walk
A straight line to the underpass, so why not
Trill according to the rules we have been
Taught?

68.

It's a bear maudlin market
Out there,
Our very fibers are englossed in
Strides of dis-recovery, it won't be long
Before we don't belong.

69.

The headroom
Pacing atrophy encloses even glass, so
Duplication wanders into fraught perception
Lines of code.

70.

Maternal reverence means
Thoughts are always with you, even
As a dim collective bulb, a film of
Overcast exudes from summer fill dirt.

71.

Things are happening that might not
Occupy our tendrils if the case is
Stoic from the viewpoint of the stair.

72.

Pondering's a mug's game,
Finally, the fever only multiplies
What we are given, sentence after
Spry sonority, this gift lace
Crispens over time, the name is stiff
With rudimentary indulgent aftermath.

73.

One dovetails with intended fluency,
One lacks the space in brain to have
Commended where command took place
In rainy formats chiming with
The blaze of indivisibility forecast
To mean vault the sill with powder
To detach a sorry plume from old
Wealth's barometric bench press

74.

In the fallen angel eminence we
Glandularly phase out of our
Psyches meant to be collective while
Enlivened through immodest precedence
Lacking viability and sense.

75.

Game nautilus, for better and
For worse things to encompass medical
Alerts from countries gasping while we
Work the color blue into admixtures
Of interminable frenzy advocated by
A generalist surgeon with diplomas
From a mill or two absent
A microscope or tendencies toward judgment
Anywhere nearby.

76.

The whole cloth
Veritably mottled in this fast materializing dusk.

77.

Might there be an inference in the traction space
To chaperone from space, to interface, elongate
Fuel, careen into the leisurely indifferential
Park face plural or defumed or viable or
Integer-prone loyalist politico because of
Volumes spoken, physical agility.
Preambles slow to voyage to Parmenides.

78.

At once I feel you zither into lap points
Infrastructural and doused in mighty
Flame, why not indifferentiate our ladders
Facing scalding water where a rush of
Fuel would be, here is a problem,
Solve it for me, drive the process,
Terminate the rush to be as beatific
As a sage.

79.

I'm sure of you.
I blatantly wash all the edibles I know.
In fact the tendency to try repudiates
Original job exploits we deformalize
Because of omnibus integrity.

80.

I know because you're near me
Storm wars carry pungency, norms,
Fuel burst, certainty where it belongs.

81.

Lurking is teased-out fathoms
Pursed to gift and fastened freely in an
Insolent expression (higher level)
Formal functions job market or the academy.

82.

Ask a question, forge a path, renounce
The unnamed one of us.


83.

Trailblaze is the absence of other things.
What other things, what other adages,
How profound the first impression, if so,
Why, if not, why not.

84.

What is our collective goal
That makes response time
The intensity that's driving.

85.

What service are we providing?
Whose eyes are we looking through?
The pencil is as light as fiber.
Fiber is as light as pencil.
Feather sweet as thoughts of sleep.

86.

How do we assess our day remnants?
What makes us leave our sense?
Beauty marks us; beauty makes us.

87.

Note the color blue, the color pearl, the color
Adage. Very few of us elate more than
Our drive toward, each one to five,
They buy it more than once.

88.

Quiet, practiced peace I guess, the guesses
Falter, and they slow to a pure pitch.
Someone has smoked. My decaf tastes
As sacramental as infraction, now I lay me down.
The day is still.
Some whispers go to peace.

89.

I've proved them simple, proved them swayed,
Pronounce some sure things mightily as
Guards, estrange, entrap, return to Braille.

90.

No, I am not interested in hearing
Conversation not my own.

91.

Everything feels good to the feet,
Sweet swank northern ample firestorm,
Why not ranch out into accurate
For-once at least long standing steamy
Plate glass.

92.

"Not a lot of tempo" in two-three-minute
Spurts, this is not my concept
Of momentum or of moment, how do we identify
With others sans repeating selves.

93.

Signs dim slowly, an effete
Estrangement versifies homogenized
Enceinte young lambs perhaps
The single worst entrapment slates its way
To fewer dishpan hands with guesses in them.

94.

Pretty little rinsed girls leave the nest,
Whose nest,
Pretty sacramental lovelies factor into
Others' innocence.

95.

It's nowhere close to midnight anymore
The crepe is not a form of wool

I'm writing interjections, intersections,
Do you like this, what he thinks and how
He acts, the edge of equity plucked shapely

96.

Pulse has liberated
Faultline concentration
Maybe not.

97.

Let the night pronounce itself
When driven to restraint, passable
Procedures silence wood from restive
Plaints so we conform like water,
We conform to vacant space.

98.

The painters capture what has leavened.
All our prayers will have been answered
By the replication process tenderly
And tentatively small to middling practice
Sessions, leaves still leaving.



 

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