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What Never Falters

Joseph Murphy

When thorns rose from the shadow of an herb,
A starling burst from these words
And a syllable’s orbit
Parsed a bend in my thoughts.

I continue to press the levers of sound:
Hoping to animate a long-dead sigh; fathom
The curves and shapes of leaves.

I keep sea-smoothed memories in pocket;
Renounce the surge and pitch
Of asphalt; sway
As edge meets center at breath’s core;

As a green stalk
Twists through the blade that chafes me,
Through the reigns
That churn thought and vowel,
Though what spins
And never falters.

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