by phillipw | Dec 30, 2019 | OL
The Belles of Ouzeley Her eyes reject the shape of weeping trees, Or so she says. Perhaps her words might mean Or emphasize some other point, or tease Me with outrageous thought, some Byzantine Mind game. Her outré stance certainly got My piqued attention like a...
by phillipw | Dec 30, 2019 | CA
A Form of Meditation My cat is trying to express a deep And lovely thought. Her Buddhist methods for This mystic message are purring and sleep. She sometimes dozes in the corridor With chin (propped on a brick from a building Site in Dongzhimen) the hue of...
by phillipw | Dec 30, 2019 | AL, AL, ME, MI
Mists Does mist mean something in the mind? Besides The coming of dementia with its fog Of numb remembrance, Alzheimer’s knife slides Right through the brain. Schizophrenia’s Gog And Magog thrust an Armageddon in The very citadel of logic. Does...
by phillipw | Dec 30, 2019 | AA, KO, MU
A-ak A-ak—one of three forms of ancient Korean court music Now think of things that have no connection With you, or almost none. A-ak measures From eons past, beyond resurrection, Those notes and rhythms that once were treasures Of thin...
by phillipw | Dec 30, 2019 | PL
It Is Hard; and Conract Killers–a Sonnet Biquence It’s hard to say if AIDS or gayness should Be made to go away. If we kill AIDS, The innocent will be protected: good Women and kids could be saved by crusades To wipe it out. Like Hitler we could try To...
