by phillipw | Sep 28, 2019 | FU
Funeral Games Some people marry several times. I tend To want not several weddings but instead To be the subject of various send Offs. I’ll have respective funerals to wed Eternity and me in death. I wish A sober one in black officiated By my brother, and a...
by phillipw | Sep 27, 2019 | BE, HE
Feminine Beauty Just Ain’t Right “Hylas . . . is described in very un-heroic terms, with χαρίεντος (7) suggesting youth and beauty, and πλοκαμῖδα (7) emphasizing the boy’s ‘almost feminine prettiness’.” A hero can’t be pretty, beautiful, Or like a girl.,, (Well,...
by phillipw | Sep 27, 2019 | LO
Passion’s Blind Carving Knife In London ‘they almost died of starvation.’ ~ Edmund White Inhabiting a wilderness of bored Clichés about the plight of poets, this Pair breathed in poverty the gods had stored Up for them from the moment their first kiss Sent Paul...
by phillipw | Sep 27, 2019 | LO
Abbess Cacoethes of the Paraclete So love-lorn lovers leave their letters on The tomb of Abelard and Heloise Because these failing modern lovers fawn On legend, not on truth. Upon their knees They worship sea-haar hued romance, this since They...
by phillipw | Sep 26, 2019 | LO
Suffocated Devotions ……….“the fame of his lost love” Who cares about the love of Yazid choked Forever in that clogging of the throat, About Antinous, whose death is cloaked In rumors and suspicions as they float Above the marble whiteness of his...
