Tarot

Mish (Eileen) Murphy


I don't hate
science.

I've
studied

the rotation of the sun
the square root of pi,
the evolution of the monkey,

the treachery of flowers.

But the right brain
longs to sift
in its arthritic hands
the silk tablecloth

where
the spread-out cards
gaze back
like
little
glazed windows.


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"Tarot" was first published in Poetica Review (Great Britain, 2021)

Mish (Eileen) Murphy is Contributing Editor and emeritus Assistant Poetry Editor for CulturalDaily.com. She teaches English/literature at Polk State College, Lakeland, Florida. She graduated from New College, Sarasota, and Columbia College of Chicago.  A Pushcart nominee, she has published two poetry collections—Fortune Written on Wet Grass (2019) and Sex & Ketchup (2021)—and a poetry chapbook, Evil Me (2020).