by phillipw | Sep 26, 2019 | Ho
φυσικά [Of Course] “Homosexuality in its highest sense is founded on intellectualism. It represents fundamentally an aesthetic conception of love. . .” ~ Wallace Fowlie, 1946 As rarefied as nearly empty space, The void between the planets and the stars, The...
by phillipw | Sep 26, 2019 | LO, PO, RI, VE
Even? “A relationship between two poets of the same sex, even if there is a physical basis, may provide an intensive intellectual companionship and stimulation.” ~ Wallace Fowlie, 1946 When poetry explodes in friction from Deep similarities, expect the best And...
by phillipw | Sep 26, 2019 | BE, PA, PO, VE
A Wan Jesus Levitating on His Cross “a poet of melancholy and shadows, of a fragile and intensely personal Catholicism, and of the springtime of love” ~ Edmund White on Paul Verlaine Petite the pieces and emotions, shades And tones—the minor mode prevailing—verse For...
by phillipw | Sep 26, 2019 | DI, FR, NI
“One Soul in Bodies Twain” and Diaghilev’s “one in private life” The ocean of men’s friendships spreads too vast For those who think about it to presume To use taxonomies which tend to cast One sinkered net across love’s waves and spume, One flaring circle that...
by phillipw | Sep 26, 2019 | AE, BE, CO, ES, PR
The Presentation in the Temple by Giovanni Bellini, Fondazione Querini Stampalia The Presentation in the Temple, Giovanni Bellini, Wikipedia Formality presents itself in lines, And shapes and curves, in balance, dark and light, In glowing surfaces while...
