Bewildering Offspring
Amanda MurphyEssays, poems and other loose collections of words aiming to smooth out my own rugged investigations into the realities and virtualities of person-hood. Because life is bewildering.
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Notes on a Sun
At 7:07 am she is fiery but not warm
The stillness of loss bright across our faces
Hibiscus red and golf course green faded and frosty
I wait on her like a bride on the dock
Who doesn’t yet know her sailor has gone to sea for the la...
Unlearn
The task is to unlearn parts of the self that are not self.
The task is to unlearn productivity.
Unlearn discipline.
Unlearn adaptation.
Unlearn the language we didn’t know we learned.
Unhinge the manager from the control stati...
October Erotics
Past lovers’ shapes tumble from golden memory trees
Kisses are cloaked in coffee and daydreams soaked in rain
Feet resist their veiling in cashmere socks — in vain
Collar bones are scarved un-scarved arms burrow into sleeves
A wet le...
May 27, 2025
I had to explain what the air is made out of
I had to explain oxygen and carbon dioxide
I had to explain the circulatory system
I had to explain veins and arteries
in and out of the heart
I had to explain digestion
I had to e...
After poems
She dreamt of a mouthful of moths
spitting up their frailty from her being
strong and wanting to be weak
wanting to be those hybrid creatures, in Virginia’s words
neither gay like butterflies
nor sombre like their own species
en...
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