narcissus not step twice into, not step back from stream. its nets are storm blackened, narcissus’ flower is a cut out. it has shut in cold, skeining back into his bud echo and, outbreath. he skeins back his thread the blind buds are always. step (not-step) back then. step (not-step) back then, from the black river nets. stalk the open ring stalk the open ring, this waystation. others speak him out of chrysalis, it is voice brings us alive. it is an unearthing of voice, brings us alive. his hands bound by feathers, red wings, a difficult birthing. Copyright 2017 Chris Murray Online URL Compose Journal, Spring 2017 https://composejournal.com/articles/chris-murray-two-poems/
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narcissus not step twice into, not step back from stream. its nets are storm blackened, narcissus’ flower is a cut out. it has shut in the cold, skeining back into the bud. echo and, outbreath he skeins back his thread the blind buds are always. step (not-step) back then. step (not-step) back then, back from the black river nets.narcissus was first published in the Spring 2017 issue of Compose Journal
Chris Murray is an Irish poet. Her chapbook Three Red Things was published by Smithereens Press (2013). A small collection of interrelated poems in series and sequence, Cycles, was published by Lapwing Press (2013). A book-length poem The Blind was published by Oneiros Books (2013). Her second book-length poem She was published by Oneiros Books ( 2014). A chapbook, Signature, was published by Bone Orchard Press (2014). “A Modern Encounter with ‘Foebus abierat’: On Eavan Boland’s ‘Phoebus Was Gone, all Gone, His Journey Over’ ” was published in Eavan Boland: Inside History (Editors, Nessa O’Mahony and Siobhán Campbell) by Arlen House (2016). A Hierarchy of Halls was published in February 2018 (Smithereens Press) and Bind was published by Turas Press in October 2018.⊗ See more at http://composejournal.com/articles/chris-murray-two-poems/#sthash.hM3Mv9RZ.dpuf
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Our Spring 2017 issue features an interview with Margo Orlando Littell and an excerpt from her debut novel, Each Vagabond by Name; poetry by Laura Donnelly, Brian Simoneau, Chris Murray, Tanya Fadem, Sergio A. Ortiz, John Grey, Lita Kurth, and Gail DiMaggio; creative nonfiction by Noriko Nakada, Marion Agnew, Kevin Bray, Telaina Eriksen, Jim Krosschell, and Wendy Fontaine; fiction by Andrew Boden, Darci Schummer, Liesl Nunns, Laura Citino, and Beth Sherman; and artwork by Ana Prundaru, Fabrice Poussin, and Brian Michael Barbeito. See more at: http://composejournal.com/issues/spring-2017/#sthash.hmFQpFvl.dpuf
Thanks to Suzannah Windsor and Andres Rojas for including two poems from my book (work in progress) at this link
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