by phillipw | Aug 9, 2019 | LO, ST
I Have to Leave my Ghostly Eyes on You I have to leave my ghostly eyes on you. How else can I increase my chances of Our meeting after, when in rendezvous Your corpseless soul — at last — requires my love? I have to hold my haunting eyes on yours. How else will I be...
by phillipw | Aug 9, 2019 | SE
Medical Technology Advances The time will come when someone will invent A scanner for the human heart. Clear views Resulting in a pure astonishment Will force high-minded lovers to refuse The findings. Expectations will be scrubbed. For those who thought that simple...
by phillipw | Aug 8, 2019 | ME
The Little Eighth Grader Could not Dream of Massenet’s Tortured Flow of Music as Well as Did that Prostitute, Thaïs I started with my love in seventh grade. My teacher wanted me to learn the drums, But mother…sax. What put them in the shade Was silver sound. ...
by phillipw | Aug 7, 2019 | ME
Obliteration when God is finished with His oils and lays His brush away, i hope He searches for my portrait in the nearly countless bays of storage where His grand conservator, His memory, has stowed it. then i want the picture to be scrubbed as clean as clean can...
by phillipw | Aug 7, 2019 | JE, LO, ST
Ghostly Surgery When we are sleeping, both, forever, I Will sift your soul subconsciously. This search Will certainly include past dreams and pry Among your souvenirs. I’ll find the perch Where this and that love rival have been stored. I’ll oust them,...