by phillipw | Aug 21, 2019 | AP
Distant and Distant For Fiona, Kimberly and Ivan One night when Perseus had put to bed His wingèd horse and kissed his forelock, twice, (While no one else was watching), too much red Wine passed Perseus’s lips since at dice He lost a pile of coins. The next...
by phillipw | Aug 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Some Myths Come Up Inside Us 0\s Some myths come up inside us with the force Of memory. I wake to find that I Have been gnawing on the flesh of a Norse God; just a dream, except that there’s the dye Of truth in it because the meat was Charles My friend. That...
by phillipw | Aug 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Time Might not Go Forever 0 Time might not go forever but it’s long Enough to grow quite thin. That’s why we’ve thought Up things like God, immortal life, and song Of angels praising Him from the year dot– If His creation of them was the...
by phillipw | Aug 21, 2019 | FA
You Stare at Them, Can’t Help It 0 You stare at them, can’t help it, as they stalk Along the catwalk or they stare at you From glossy magazines. Perhaps you gawk At them as if your hungry look could hew A way to beauty in their beds with them Where you...
by phillipw | Aug 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Linda Means . . . 0 The boy whose heart replaced his tongue sat down Beside the girl in deepest petticoats That whispered like the whitest waves. The crown Of that poor male’s fraught day, they were the boats That carried off his thinking to a place So...
