August 2024
Bio Note: I live in Phoenix, Arizona, where I write, draw, and serve as a management consultant, researcher, and author. Poems have appeared in Poetry, Hanging Loose, Fortnightly Review, and numerous others. Most recent book is Permission to Relax (BlazeVOX Books.) I received the Gertrude Stein Award in 2003 for Letters to Unfinished J. (Green Integer).
My New Blue Glasses
They're wider thicker than
The more moderate sideways frames
But not Iris Apfel wide
Just moving in that direction
Affording me inhalation of new material
Turned observation I can see for instance
Mallards in pristine green plus tiny Mexican parrots
Also differently beautifully green sharper to my eye
I spy who's on the canal from a distance
I can absorb interpretation of the staves
And what falls out of them and I can see through
My own resistance to replying to posts and letters
Just at this moment I am starting to be hungry
And tonight we'll venture to the drive-in theater
I'll have a more accurate view and the frames
Won't slide down on my eager face
Not a trace of anything to fear except maybe
Overdosing on movie popcorn for the first time
In threadbare years
©2024 Sheila E. Murphy
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