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Peer Review, Curfew by Shelia Murphy

May 24, 2017 by Every Writer

Peer Review, Curfew by Peer Reivew, Curfew

by Shelia Murphy

I learn best
From people without
Feelings.

They shape me
By remote
Hardware.

We trade stories
Just in time
To store whatever

We hope to sell
All the time
comparing notes

and calling notaries
to come and stamp
the proof nobody minds.

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Shelia Murphy is A Gertrude Stein Award winner and the co-founder of the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series. She is both a poet and a visual artist. For a more complete bio see her Wiki page.

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