Two Poems

by Carolyn Murphy

How I have to leave

how to finger after before you forget when do you clean house, pack books into boxes with notes in margins, the coffee cups, Dutch oven for Dad so he what a proper— what

Observe

a beer in jest wonders how long it actually takes machine meat learns the drift sequence project the absurdity of real hips of deer that take bananas from your palm

Carolyn Murphy

Carolyn Murphy lives in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in sPARKLE & bLINK and Samizdat.