by phillipw | Mar 10, 2020 | CH, ST
The Day that Never Came My Charles is not here. The wind moves through The sun-struck wheat, but Charles is not there. The early springtime trees beneath the blue Skies Windsor offers hold out their still bare Tree limbs. I often daydreamed I would show These...
by phillipw | Mar 10, 2020 | AS
Astrological Intimations Perhaps we should have been the Gemini And not Aquarians. Aquarians Are watery at best up in the sky. We should have both been harsh barbarians Of love, the pair of us, the twins of lust And not so much of brotherhood. We might Have been...
by phillipw | Mar 10, 2020 | KI, MU
King’s Dreary The sky lies blue on top of still canals In Cambridge. Perpendicular, the thrust Of King’s attempts to leave the drear locales And gravity behind. The sound of trust Arises from the boys’ voices in The soaring chapel...
by phillipw | Mar 10, 2020 | BE, MA
Penis Penance Just how can women cope when men are more Gorgeous than their female matings, as strong As gondolas’ slow rocking on the shore Of Serenissima; or like a long Boat set by Viking sinew on the waves In Arctic storm of sleet that muscles...
by phillipw | Mar 10, 2020 | MA
The Maldives, the Tsunami, and Death Duty A garland, greener than the aqua fringe Around each island of its atolls, waits Just barely in the ocean where they cringe In memory of that wave. Its shade negates The jewelled magic of the necklace where It’s anchored...
