by phillipw | Jan 12, 2020 | RI
Forbidden Fruit/Fruit interdit Imagine then a little boy who finds A house set back alone in orange trees That has its windows barred but has no blinds. Inside a wonder world of toys he sees, The sorts of toys which everyone like him Would want. He tiptoes high to...
by phillipw | Jan 12, 2020 | RI, VE
An Alabaster Submarine: A Shakespearean Sonnet by Paul While They Lived in London and Accidentally Misplaced by Arthur Recently Discovered and Englished by Phillip Whidden …………The Gospel of Saint Luke 7:36-50 A submarine cathedral is the place...
by phillipw | Jan 12, 2020 | RI, VE
Heartless Books He spiralled through erotic books complete With spelling errors, and Church Latin ones, Complete with telling errors, sneered at sweet Tales “read by grandmothers” but not their sons. He even leafed through little children’s books But not...
by phillipw | Jan 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Rimbaud & Swinburne One wonders if the fog outside had made Its way inside the reading room where two Bent poets sat, one who’d employed a blade Of poesie across Paul’s paps; one who Composed rhymed couplets focusing upon The teeth of Sappho...
by phillipw | Jan 12, 2020 | SI
The Age of Valentino and Chaplin ………. With all the clarity of silver’s sheen Yet maybe with a patina of gray, The soundless light fills up the sterling screen. The characters and scenes are like ballet But of a stiff and jerky sort. Perhaps This...
