by phillipw | Aug 18, 2019 | CH, ST
Once I Saw that You Used a Five-day Underarm Deodorant which has Now Created a Fragrant Rosary I dreamed of you and was fulfilled, was filled With sadness— but fulfilled. I woke. The dream Was gone, but all the morning hours were stilled In quietude of...
by phillipw | Aug 18, 2019 | WH
White Dwarves White dwarves are stars which want to cease their lives. They crave a gravity-less suicide. These globes want death. Each dwindling sparkle strives To free itself from life. In fact, it’s died Already, or it lingers, comatose Beyond revival,...
by phillipw | Aug 15, 2019 | AP, JA
Hipsypile, Medea, and the Ascending Star Twice Apollonius compares the man, That hero, Jason, to a rising star, A strong one in the dawn or dark. Scan The lines: two women lusting for him are Not praised for stellar loveliness. At best Each comes presented as a...
by phillipw | Aug 14, 2019 | AE, BE, ES, GR
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord Beauty The ancient Greeks loved beauty, all its forms. Men prized the patterns that enquiring minds Discovered, loving it because it warms The brain and body, loving curved behinds Marble statue of the Three Graces Metropolitan Museum of Art,...
by phillipw | Aug 13, 2019 | SW
The Thames at Windsor this Sunset The evening sunlight shines unevenly Upon the floating water and the swan. His neck receives the lovely force we see Along its curving back like cream chiffon In candlelight. He moves away from west To east just while the sun is...
