Bio
Mark A. Murphy is a self-educated, disabled, working class poet. His last collection, 'Ontologistics Of A Time Traveller' was published by World Inkers in America, 2023.
Mark A. Murphy
Prelude in E Minor
What is this sadness that invites us to withdraw
into the magic of minor keys? Are we the astronomers
of descending melodies, discovering
the faintest of stars? Is this what loneliness
sounds like? Chord chains torn
from another dimension? As if the heart (cleaved
from the body) still grieves alone in a Warsaw crypt.
Tomorrow we smile again, for tonight we live
our saddest dreams.