Sheila Murphy
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‘Audition’: a poem by Sheila E. Murphy
Audition I got my booster shot. The roostertrots out into the yard and throats a shout.Some huge truck beep-whines its lorry line of code.I’m about to compose an odefrom bedfast leaning on the other armto bird feel of Midwestern cloudwith plane moan and car door closings sifted throughthe open window with staccato promptsin counterpoint with…