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MOON COUNTRY IBD

MICHAEL E MURPHY
ARCHWAY PUBLISHING
12 / 2025
9781665786386
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Sinopsis

Pity the poor plumeria tree:no white petals again this year,and again its green, oblong leavesfall before their prime, exposeits skeletal frame like a desert fossil.We hadn?t asked all that muchof the plumeria---neither the shadenor the elegance the others give---only that it be a privacy screenbetween our patio and the passersby.Perhaps it thinks itself the orphanwe?d adopted, the child with atavistictraits we could not recognize, the onewhom teachers sent home with notes,the kid who missed the open goal,the young man who left for the hillswith The Wanderers---the sonfor whom we?d kill the fatted calfif only he?d come back home to us,be the new leaf on our plumeria tree.In his Moon Country poems, Michael E. Murphy spirits the reader off to exotic places likeIguazu Falls, the Bolshoi Theatre, Galleons Lap, the Agasawara archipelago in the westernPacific and back to drier ground in the Cholla Gardens of Joshua Tree Park. On the wingsof these and other poetic flights, the reader accompanies Murphy as he comes of age in St.Paul, raises a family and develops an international business law practice in Minneapolis,then returns in retirement to St. Paul-and to California?s Coachella Valley to write his lifestories. For that?s what these Moon Country poems are-stories. The word poem comes fromthe Greek poiesis, the act of creating or imagining something, like a story. Murphy invitesreaders to relive his life with him through these little stories, these Moon Country poems.