by phillipw | Apr 19, 2020 | GO, JE
Divinity Jehovah hovers, prying with that eye, All-seeing gaze, omniscience. Worse than That sideways eyeball of Egyptians, Spy- In-Chief, He’s always seeing if He can Trip up and punish. He comes down in the cloud And fire on Sinai and writes on stone With...
by phillipw | Apr 19, 2020 | AC, AL, AN, DA, HE, JO
David and Jonathan, Achilles and Patroclus, Alexander and Hephaestion Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Hephaestion, lover of Alexander the Great We heroize male anger, all the way From David’s...
by phillipw | Apr 19, 2020 | AN
The Big Exceptions The women move in caged-in places both In life and plays. In poetry they are Curtailed to Sappho and Corinna. Troth Constricts Penelope. It hems. No spar To take her seas away, she tends a loom, Is trapped at night unpicking her trapped work, And...
by phillipw | Apr 18, 2020 | DI, GO
Don’t Be Fooled The gods’ eyes, even when the gods are turned Away, are staring at us. Egypt’s gods Are set askance. Mortal sins are discerned By monumental eyes. Temple facades Are covered with sly looks from faces sloped Away and sideways angles...
by phillipw | Apr 17, 2020 | CO, NE, UN
NecroPhillipa I can’t afford the kind of perjury To make me young and beautiful again In this life: the best of plastic surgery Is well beyond my grasp. Besides the pain Is more than I could bear. Perhaps I could Afford a burial arrangement, though,...
