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from numens from centrality

forthwith geriatricity, a comma's scant vocabulary
equals the filling of gasoline pumps
the only menace folded into chaise lounges
on roller-derby silences that scream

seems like the first opaque madonna
will always be a first-rate materialization
of cultural depositions rated as correcting

tuneful in arrays of colorfast indulgence
they sample whose infiltrated possibility grows
taking matters between one's own fingers
in haste the regulation does not
call back to emotionally survive those
that size up crowded forms as equal

adonis equals narcissistic wan indulgence, although
no one was there to sing

. . .

Sheila E. Murphy's book manuscript Letters to Unfinished J. was selected in a recent open poetry competition sponsored by Sun & Moon Press, and will be published by Sun & Moon. A Sound the Mobile Makes in Wind: 50 American Haibun appeared from Mudlark (1998). Leaflets (1998) was published by Instress. Falling in Love Falling in Love With You Syntax: Selected and New Poems appeared from Potes & Poets Press in 1997. Additional recent works include A Clove of Gender (Stride Press, 1995), Pure Mental Breath (Gesture Press, 1994), and Tommy and Neil (SUN/gemini Press, 1993).

Her work has been widely anthologized, most recently in Danger: Poets at Play (International Friends of Transformative Art, 1998), Fever Dreams: Contemporary Arizona Poetry (The University of Arizona Press, 1997), The Gertrude Stein Awards in Contemporary Poetry (Sun & Moon Press, 1994, 1995), Primary Trouble: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Talisman House Press, 1996), and The Art of Practice: 45 Contemporary Poets (Potes & Poets Press, 1994).

Twelve years ago, she founded and continues to coordinate with Beverly Carver the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series Her home is in Phoenix.

 Peter Ganick was born in Boston in 1946 and has run Potes & Poets Press since 1981 which currently publishes a.bacus and a new seriesof chapbooks, as well as has in the past published 43 perfectbound books of language and experimenal poetry.

His many books include hyperspace cantatas (Xexoxial), remove a concept - parts 1 and 2 (Leech), rectangular morning poem (potes & poets), news on skis (Avenue B), agoraphobia (Drogue), no soap radio (Drogue), and <a'sattv> forthcoming from Chax Press.

His other collaborations with Sheila Murphy include -ocracy, parts 1-12, appearing in 4 chapbooks published by Texture, Potes & Poets, Runaway Spoon, and as English #2.

He currently teaches classical piano in the Hartford, CT area and lives with his wife of 18 years, Carol, an artist, and three dogs in Elmwood, CT.