Project 365 + 1: found text

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Friday, September 14, 2018

Lizz Murphy Poem #371 in the early evening skies

in the early evening skies

the star shrinks down to

leave the physical world

an elegant method of heeding

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move relative to the stars

look for each moon

walk in the light

Thursday, September 6, 2018

Lizz Murphy #368 A winter river

A winter river

carries into the lake

The sun repeats itself

Whirl and twist

perfect stillness

found text from Cosmos/New Scientist

Puddling about with mixed media, lines and fragments

for One Sky, Many Stories a project at Belconnen Arts Centre in Canberra.

Hoping eventually to get a longer poem and maybe some art & text works.

It's a Living Studio situation — very pleased indeed to be part of it.

Pictured: some of my puddles with astronomer Fred Watson :)

Saturday, December 31, 2016

Lizz Murphy - Poem 365: This has become my language

A composition of found texts from the Heads art & text series September to November, 2016

THIS HAS BECOME MY LANGUAGE

When the showcase is over

and a woman is the normal

consciousness, everything changed.

this has become my language

trying to weave

increasingly rare encounters

just moving in the wind. I

sharing the potent stories

when asked to pinpoint the very

the broken objects

growing up in a country shaped

“I carefully walked along

in their trembling bones

paint runs in the rain

those curious sensations

hemmed her in.

in an audacious dream of

was so strung out

her on the streets

in a cardigan.”

standing out in our minds

she uses them to shut out the world

from the inside

dark reality and

something about the face

being in the right place

can’t articulate in words

think deeper.

Monday, December 26, 2016

Lizz Murphy - Poem 362: Colour - Skin (found text)

COLOUR - SKIN

Found in Nursing: The Authorised Manual of The St John Ambulance Association of the Order of St John, The British Red Cross Society, Second Edition, 1965. [I was going to be a nurse! Starting with voluntary nursing at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast]