by phillipw | Apr 16, 2020 | FR, RO
Intercessory Our love is like an orchestra that plays https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Petrushka%20chord&item_type=topic In two key signatures at once, or like Grieg And Chinese music mixing, a blaze Of orange tweed against silk’s pink, a league Of...
by phillipw | Apr 16, 2020 | AN, ME, SC
Medieval or Eternity The artist does not have a name. Severe With grace in stone, the sculptures look down on Us, masking his identity, a tear Not shed, a smile withheld. The brawn Of arm and shoulder, strength and talent of The hand can only be supposed. The man...
by phillipw | Apr 16, 2020 | PA
Manifesto for the Past We try to write a manifesto for The past; not history—the Past. We want To mold those things they call the facts, and more Then that we wish to change what men can vaunt As for triumphs in their greed and realms have gone by. Men must not...
by phillipw | Apr 16, 2020 | AN, GR, PO
Daedalus and Icarus “The natural rhythms of Greek [poetry] tend ‘downward,’ falling” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 14 How strange it is to think that ancient Greek In poetry inclined to downward flow. We think that the trajectory was sleek In upward movement...
by phillipw | Apr 16, 2020 | ZO
Zoroaster Speaks with Lips Sewn Closed by Paradox Another myth as founder of a faith, Old Zoroaster comes to us through mists As long as eons. He is like a wraith More strange than countertenors with their wrists Concealed in robes religion hides them in. The prophet...
