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As It Is

Joseph Murphy

A wave shimmers loose from a shell’s gleam,
As if to coax these words
Toward open water;

As if meaning could be pried
From sound; shaped by another’s lips
And heard.

As if it weren’t mad
To gather images as others do shells,
Pressing them forward,
Line after line.

As if those images had the strength
To wield, carry; to reach
Past the brain’s hollow; to emerge
Through a willow leaf’s surge
Or a worm’s skin
And whirl back alive through one day’s
Dog-eared page.

As if that page could burn in the beak of things,
Breathing or not;
Plumb the source of a dream; measure
One night’s width.

As if that dream were to shake me awake,
Offer images chipped
From the breadth of another’s sleep.

As if those images could wriggle up,
Surface within my reflection;
Change the way I imagine.

As if it were enough to witness
The world as it is,
And still wish to set a sea-shaped fin
On dry land.

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