Keep Tahoe Seductive

Fully vested in five years
At a gallop down the mother lode
Of sacredly androgynous momentum

This was the insistence of shown parenting
Procedures (thinking therefore ambling)
Toward receivership-shape dollops of blue

Sparring from the heart zone
To the prickly pear-shaped furry
Pet’s domestic best-kept

Sieve-through pours (thoracic left
In park) to capture the amen
Ities (teased) from scratch

Your back replenishing of pheromone
Mid-wintry seizures interruptive of
The palace breast inducing seepage

“Keep Tahoe Seductive”
Keep the backhoe busy
Keep tobacco dry

Your powder or mine
In Brackets

As You Were

“My modular home is your modular home,” said he
With tongue in checkered
Pastiche yielding triple
Flutings ribald as blond
Bomb bombast versus nocturne

Qualitative braggadocio mentions
Center selfhood
Where it hurts most
In a moving car
Far flung from captions overflown

The remedy proposed is merely welding
Sadness to the dome (“surely goodness”)
Imparting patterned walking
Patterned speech
And patter by itself

Hell’s briefings linger where we lurk
Awhile impeaching history for all its
Franking privilege unaccounted for
While unaccountably indifferent
To generally accepted practices

Remove vermouth from home base
While you’re at it, and revoke
The privileges afforded an untimely
Youth displaying comfort via back brace
In the dim moonlight of inner space

Sheila E. Murphy has books forthcoming from Lavender Ink Books, Unlikely Books, and Chax Press. Her most recent title is Permission to Relax (BlazeVOX, 2023). She lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Wikipedia page Sheila Murphy.