"I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms"
----Wallace Stevens
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbird"
August, 2007
Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy's books are The Deed of Gift, Story Line Press, 1998; Set the Ploughshare Deep, Ohio University Press, 2000; Very Far North, Waywiser Press (London), 2002; and Beowulf, A Longman Cultural Edition, 2004. Two more are being finished for submission.
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Timothy Murphy
Visitation
I had a dream. I hosted three young monks
and put them up on Wickham Corwin's bunks,
in a duck shack so many hunters haunt.
My seniors by Saint Benedict's decree,
these robed friars had come to pray for me
and not to murder birds as is my wont.
Shadrach, Meschach and Abednigo,
go to your furnace. Let the angel show.
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© 2007 David Landrum