by phillipw | Dec 31, 2019 | MI, SE
Sisters Each spirit whispers like a softened snake, “You know you’d rather be another soul, A heroine who’s burning at the stake, Or at the very least a silky pole Dancer snorting up the lines of cocaine Stuffed crudely in her g-string by a player....
by phillipw | Dec 30, 2019 | DI
Crossbreed Charlatan The ex-Hippie, who became a Yuppie By selling New Age snake oil on the Web, An ageing Old English Sheepdog puppy, Whose fur and ethics, jointly on the ebb, Is now a man who’s mostly pathetic From any point of view. HIs thinning hair Is grizzled...
by phillipw | Dec 30, 2019 | DI, MA
Just Married * A silvery foil piece of confetti, Much larger than the usual size of This litter, waits there making its petty Claim. Subtly it doesn’t allude to love Where it fell, trapped between the cobblestones Outside the Guildhall wedding factory...
by phillipw | Dec 30, 2019 | UN
If I Were Mute If I were mute, I’d be all right. Each day I’d draw some sonnets and when night time came I’d paint some villanelles. A virelay Of gouache would capture exclamations. Blame Might be expressed in couplets tart as Pope’s, Though mine...
by phillipw | Dec 30, 2019 | ZO
Zoo and the Pyramid of Cheops When humans are becoming rare and are The pale, pale blue of near extinction, will Unique enclosures for these then bizarre Examples of the species give a thrill To aliens who’ve put them in a zoo? And what will men and women think there...
