Wild Court

An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London

Sheila Murphy

  • ‘Audition’: a poem by Sheila  E. Murphy

    ‘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…