Murphy, Jim

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Yalobusha Review Volume 2 Article 27 April 2021 Junk Travel Through West Memphis Jim Murphy Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/yr  Part of the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Murphy, Jim (2021) "Junk Travel Through West Memphis," Yalobusha Review: Vol. 2 , Article 27. Available at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/yr/vol2/iss1/27 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by the English at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Yalobusha Review by an authorized editor of eGrove. For more information, please contact egrove@olemiss.edu. JIM MURPHYJunk Travel Through West MemphisWoman with a starshell light behind her eyes turns slowly on the sugar of a ride cymbal, and moves her hands toward the Pleiadesshe imagines strung across the dancehall floor. Other hands are soft on her white taffeta, and the fingers everywhere in her thingsonly add their flashing brushes to the torsion. What a love this is, at the core of quiet music where rings and wallet can be gladly given over.Shoes, too, and a bracelet with eight red stars swinging from the band are calmly offered to those in desperate need. Her frayed hem sweeps up, and the bassist at his hat rack lifts an arm to this backwards-rushing bride. She unfolds the packet of her tin foil heart, and invites each oneto touch it. She wants them all at her cotillion.What matters is the glow inside her hilltop mansion, though the eaves are overrun with Spanish mossand the portico is strewn with broken glass. The rough alloy in her brain's blood shimmers, sets in place, and slows her steps to Zion down.83 1Murphy: Junk Travel Through West MemphisPublished by eGrove, 1996

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