The State Tree of Arizona Is Littering the Walkways with Yellow Dust
Floriferous posies dry-spill Along the ground beneath Each yellow "Desert Museum" Lushly abloom and leaving evidence In wildly warm light Feathery lovely on the eye Neighbors want your face On a wanted poster for failing To brush off this most perfect Yellow hue it's up to you to keep Their allergies at bay all day Chop away the source code Of profuse dustlings giving our State a Reputation
Sheila E. Murphy. Poems have appeared in Poetry, Hanging Loose, Fortnightly Review, and numerous others. Most recent books are Permission to Relax (BlazeVOX Books, 2023) October Sequence: Sections 1-51 (mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press, 2023), and Sostenuto (Luna Bisonte Prods (2023). Murphy received the Gertrude Stein Award for Letters to UnfinishedJ. (Green Integer Press, 2003). Murphy's book titled Reporting Live from You Know Where (2018) won the Hay(na)Ku Poetry Book Prize Competition from Meritage Press (U.S.A.) and xPress(ed) (Finland). Her Wikipedia page can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Murphy
